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This is just so wrong. He’s too nostalgic of the Amiga days.
First, he has no concrete proof that many lines of code is bad. He’s just saying “I feel like things are worse now and here’s a graph that correlates with my feelings”.
And then he shows a graph of the number of lines in the Linux kernel. Yeah, Linux grew in size mid 90s because that was when people wanted to make it work on computers other than Torvald’s own!
Secondly, no one wants to plug in an USB and grant whatever is in it full machine access. It’s a major security concern, and people want multitasking. What if I want to listen to Spotify while I play my game?
The USB thing is likely not going to work either way because it can’t take into account for all possible configurations. Too bad, this program doesn’t recognize your specific WiFi card. You have to survive without internet.
Unless someone manages to perfectly standardize everything that can possibly happen in a computer. That ain’t going to happen.
I agree.
That guy has too many spotlights on him than he deserves...
Words are cheap, as we say.
I don’t really know how to describe him. I guess Casey is proof that one can be skilled in programming, but still have a fundamental lack of understanding in software engineering.