Post by @joseph
This is important: https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet
SQLite is everywhere and in everything, and it is not an exaggeration that if there's an undiscovered date-based bug in SQLite the world stops on that day.
But there are many, many pieces of software like that, built and maintained by people you've never heard of who often as not are barely scraping by.
@mhoye@cosocial.ca Mandatory XKCD
@mhoye@cosocial.ca In fairness, the fact that one comic is so succinctly describes the problem, begs the question, why is the solution so elusive?
@joseph Solutions aren't elusive at all. We know how to pay for things that don't benefit any one entity in specific but benefit all of us collectively, this is where roads, sewers, clean running water and the electrical grid come from. We're just not doing that for software.
@joseph @mhoye
The comic is a much more rugged piece of infrastructure
Handling a lot of conceptual bandwidth very succinctly, and requires almost no maintenance as it’s sustained and spread virally (without even losing its citation!)
If other solutions were as robust as that cartoon, the system would be gang-busters