Willy's comment on my blog ended up a dev quote of the week on #LWN: https://lwn.net/Articles/980652/
@bagder this tells me that more code is written in the world than should be. Which perhaps means more people are writing code than should be.
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> more code is written in the world than should be
Yes, in terms of the amount of code, this is true.
But what is needed, I think, is not to reduce the effort that goes into writing code, but rather to shift the focus from adding new things to improving and simplifying existing things. We need simplicity. We should focus our efforts on making things simpler (and thereby better) instead of adding complexity.
