Tooling has improved for ambitious software developers

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Tools for working on software in the large have improved a lot over since I last considered them ten years ago. Somehow, exception trackers and performance monitoring tools don’t seem to have evolved much over the past ten years. Both have evolved gradual type systems that might make it easier to hold a large program in an individual’s head productively. I’m cautiously optimistic that some kind of static analysis, whether it’s linters or type checkers, will make writing Ruby and JavaScript less haphazard. In short, tooling has made it easier for fewer people to maintain and enhance larger software.

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