Casey Muratori on the 30 Million Line Software Problem
Molly Rocket · Talk · 1 h 49 min · 2018 · YouTube title: The Thirty Million Line Problem
Why it's here
HN recommends it, long as it is, as an eye-opening rant on software complexity and why systems became so complicated.
What it covers
Casey Muratori's long talk arguing that modern software has ballooned to tens of millions of lines because of hardware and OS diversity. He proposes a stable ISA for entire system-on-a-chip packages and recalls when games shipped with their own boot disk.