2026-11-10 00:42 UTC
maybe this is software's quartz crisis. mainstream software will become cheap and disposable, but you'll be able to buy a luxury computer with artisanal handcrafted software that lasts for generations for only a few hundred thousand dollars
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com 2026-11-10 00:47
but where is the switzerland of software engineers. who is the patek of computer hardware
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@helge@mastodon.social 2026-11-10 01:02
@joe@f.duriansoftware.com Mainstream software is cheap and disposable already. That’s literally the AppStore. Custom software dev is still common and luxury (that one todo list specifically made for your workflow …). I was wondering about the “lasts for generations”, but I guess that’s just Unix.
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@kickingvegas@sfba.social 2026-11-10 04:11
@joe@f.duriansoftware.com NGL, seeing what's happened with commercial software has only pushed me more into using and improving Emacs.