This was an amazing article, I was planning on writing something on the centralizing effect of unnecessary complexity in software, but I doubt I could write half as good as this. Some projects I've come across that give me hope on fixing this are: George Hotz's tinygrad, the QBE compiler backend and Rasmus Anderssen's Playbit project.
Looking really far out, I believe the barriers to entry in building custom hardware is reducing with the creation of ergonomic HDLs like Amaranth, better tooling like Andreas Oloffson's Silicon Compiler Project (https://github.com/siliconcompiler/siliconcompiler/) creating custom chips is becoming easier and easier, I feel the last major barrier is reducing the cost of chip fabrication. But this is just very far out stuff I hope comes to fruition.
I'd love to subscribe to your substack but I'm broke Nigerian undergrad 😅.
This was an amazing article, I was planning on writing something on the centralizing effect of unnecessary complexity in software, but I doubt I could write half as good as this. Some projects I've come across that give me hope on fixing this are: George Hotz's tinygrad, the QBE compiler backend and Rasmus Anderssen's Playbit project.
Looking really far out, I believe the barriers to entry in building custom hardware is reducing with the creation of ergonomic HDLs like Amaranth, better tooling like Andreas Oloffson's Silicon Compiler Project (https://github.com/siliconcompiler/siliconcompiler/) creating custom chips is becoming easier and easier, I feel the last major barrier is reducing the cost of chip fabrication. But this is just very far out stuff I hope comes to fruition.
I'd love to subscribe to your substack but I'm broke Nigerian undergrad 😅.