The great software quality collapse (News)

What up, nerds? Shabay. I'm Jared, and this is Change Log News for the week of Monday, 10/13/2025. I'm getting back into reading. Not audible, not e ink. I'm talking physical books held in my physical hands, scanned by my physical eyeballs. Cue Olivia Newton John and her iconic white headband. Let's get physical. Physical. I need your recommends. Please comment with the best book you've read in the last ten years. Fiction, nonfiction, whatever. Okay. Let's get in to this week's news. The great software quality collapse. Dennis Stetskov describes how we've normalized catastrophe in the software industry. Quote, we've normalized software catastrophes to the point where a calculator leaking 32 gigabytes of RAM barely makes the news. This isn't about AI. The equality crisis started years before ChatGPT existed. AI just weaponized existing incompetence, end quote. Dennis has been tracking software quality metrics for three years. In this post, he cites nine plus examples from across the industry where memory consumption has lost all meaning and system level failures have become routine. What exactly is to blame? Not one single factor, but Dennis says the abstraction tax compounds exponentially like this. Quote, modern software is built on towers of abstractions, each one making development easier while adding overhead. Today's chain is React to Electron, to Chromium, to Docker, to Kubernetes, to VM, to manage DB, to API gateways, and each layer adds only 20 to 30%. But compound a handful, and you're at two to six x overhead for the same behavior. That's how a calculator ends up leaking 32 gigabytes, not because someone wanted it to, but because nobody noticed the cumulative cost until users started complaining, end quote. Dennis says we need to ask ourselves some hard questions. When did we accept that a calculator leaking 32 gigabytes is normal? How many abstraction layers are actually necessary? And what happens when we can't buy our way out anymore? Click through for his proposed path forward and the bottom line. It can't be all bad, can it? The new home for React and React Native. Meta is officially handing React and React Native as well as supporting projects like JSX over to a foundation. Quote, the React Foundation's mission is to help the React community and its members. The React Foundation will maintain React's infrastructure, organize React conf, and create initiatives to support the React ecosystem. The React Foundation will be part of the Linux Foundation, which has long fostered a vendor neutral environment for open source projects, end quote. Meta isn't abandoning the projects, at least not yet. They've committed to a five year partnership with the newly formed foundation, including 3 plus million dollars in funding and dedicated engineering support. GitHub prioritizes Azure migration over features. Here is Frederick Lardanois, apologize on the pronunciation, reporting for the new stack. Quote, with GitHub CEO Thomas Domke leaving the company this August and GitHub being folded more deeply into Microsoft's organizational structure, GitHub lost that independence. Now …