On the other hand, you've got FPGAs, which bring the software stuff to the hardware guys - and based on my (limited) understanding of the hardware industry, they've improved certain prototyping exercises by an order of magnitude.
Agreed that the rapid development cycles and malleability of the product is part of what's made software great - but my feeling is that maybe we've let that slip a little too much - leading to the bloated, slow, buggy software that everyone runs all the time.
Agreed that the rapid development cycles and malleability of the product is part of what's made software great - but my feeling is that maybe we've let that slip a little too much - leading to the bloated, slow, buggy software that everyone runs all the time.