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pishpashyesterday at 9:06 PM1 replyview on HN

That's some idealistic nostalgia. Software is generally poorly built today, and it's evidently not big enough a problem to fix.


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munk-ayesterday at 9:17 PM

Large companies that can keep themselves alive with regulatory capture - absolutely. For smaller companies that need to compete the software quality and ongoing cost of maintaining that software is a real consideration.

That isn't to say software is perfectly built, but it's usually pragmatically built to balance costs of development and correctness - well chosen abstractions let us push up both qualities at once.

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