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"What, an human in the loop is slowing down our release? I have just the idea!"

And regarding the concept of architectural mismatch, that goes nicely with another thing I recently wrote about [1]: how applying embedded architectures in high-level languages (Ja…

Regarding [3], I find the paper interestingly underwhelming. Brooks' part of it says that 2 decades have passed (since NSB in 1986) without an order-of-magnitude improvement, and t…

I found this interesting, so after some googling, these are the numbers I found: QNX kernel = 23 KLOC, C [1] Plan9 kernel = 50 KLOC, C [2] Squeak VM = 9 KLOC, Smalltalk [3] (Squeak…

That sounds really interesting. Can you point to any of those reactions?

(Author here) Actually, I think that talking about Java's multithreading here is a red herring; note that LMAX had to abandon multi-threading because it was destroying performance.…

(Author here) But that's not "Java in the real world". If anything I'd presume that that's "well programmed Java".

(Author here) "If you program it like it was C then you can get good performance" -> Note that one of the points of the post is that just using "like C" won't magically fix your pe…

(Author here) I agree. There's much too much "art", religion and cargo cultism in software development, and much too little science/engineering. And it's hard to even say whether w…

(Author here) The post quotes both Brooks and Dijkstra; the first managed development of a system and got famous, the second saw the system's actual failures and reported his criti…

Thank you so much for those insightful links!