The Thirty Million Line Problem

Presentation/Lecture; bad software quality due to software stack complexity with increased separation of layers and participants

SoC (System on a Chip) hardware for embedded/smaller use cases is very common and successful.

Suggests "Direct Coding" with direct hardware access as a possible alternative approach to PC hardware interfacing. Implementing that is more about commitment than difficulty. Depends more on hardware producers than software developers. A lack of drivers could give a fairer playing field between manufacturers.