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Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming

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128 points taylorlunt | 1 comments | 30 Jul 25 14:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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rvz ◴[30 Jul 25 16:06 UTC] No.44736000[source]▶
No it did not.

It killed the golden age of mediocre software developers, which includes the over inflated role of web development which that can be safely done by LLMs.

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Hilift ◴[30 Jul 25 17:59 UTC] No.44737463[source]▶
Around 1999, eBay code was c++ compiled into a "ebayisapi.dll". It became too large for x86. I'm guessing it had lots of COM+ and must have been a disaster, bodies everywhere.

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs330/2007fa/slides/eBayS...

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gishglish ◴[30 Jul 25 18:01 UTC] No.44737489[source]▶
Oh man, was it implemented as an ISAPI extension? I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in the wild.
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1. Hilift ◴[30 Jul 25 19:34 UTC] No.44738594{3}[source]▶
Something like 4 million lines of code with hundreds of people working on the same thing. It was converted to Java by 2002 so they knew it was a crisis.