The world of software is bad and if we do not act, we may regret it. Environment, quality, exclusion … Software Eats The World? Yes a little too

The software world is destroying itself … Manifesto for a more sustainable development

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The world of software is bad and if we do not act, we may regret it. Environment, quality, exclusion … Software Eats The World? Yes a little too much.

The software world is bad. Well, superficially, everything is fine. How could a domain with so many economic promises for the well-being of humanity go wrong? Asking ourselves the question could be a challenging of all that. So everything is fine. We are moving forward, and we are not asking ourselves too much.

The software world is getting bad. Why? 20 years of experience in the software world as a developer, researcher or CTO have given me the chance to rub shoulders with different fields and to have this feeling that it is growing year by year. I have spent the last 6 years especially trying to push practices, software quality tools to educate developers about the impact of the software on the environment. You have to be severely motivated to think about improving the software world. Good practices do not pass as easily as the new Javascript framework. The software world is not permeable to improvements. Or at least only those superficially, not deep ones.

The software world is getting bad. Everything is slow, and it’s not going in the right way. Some voices are rising. I invite you to read “Software disenchantment”. Everything is unbearably slow, everything is BIG and “BLOAT”, everything ends up becoming obsolete…The size of websites explodes. A website is as big as the Doom game. The phenomenon affects not only the Web but also the IoT, the mobile … Did you know? It requires 13% CPU When Idle Due to Blinking Cursor Rendering….