UNCOMMON TOOLS

Software is now cheap to write. When the first version of an idea takes minutes to build, the obvious answer is to ship more software. We think that is the wrong answer.

Creating high quality software tools is still hard. It is hard because there are many ways to get them almost right, but only a few ways to get them very right. Cheap code does not solve that, but cheap code does make depth affordable. So we spend the speed gains now afforded us on depth, and we make software slowly.

We would rather make a few things you keep for twenty years than dozens you forget by summer.