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I’m pretty sure that the average wastewater treatment plat in the US was built in the 50-60s.


Well managed facilities have seen substantial improvements at regular intervals.

Source: my local newspaper


The core technology is pretty much set in stone already. I wonder when software development finally reached stability like this where there is no major advancement left anymore.


> The core technology is pretty much set in stone already. I wonder when software development finally reached stability like this where there is no major advancement left anymore.

Software people have embraced what I like to call the "useless side-grade."

Once there's no major advancement left anymore, people will sell random differences as major advancements, and we'll churn by rewriting everything in the next new framework, forever.


I've been trying to point this out to my colleagues repeatedly, somebody posted a react discussion about new suspense APIs, the only response I could summon was

> at last, we can make websites




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