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On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development

posted by chromas on Wednesday October 03 2018, @09:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-future-is-now,-old-man dept.

canopic jug writes:

Nikita Prokopov has written a blog post detailing disenchantment with current software development. He has been writing software for 15 years and now regards the industry’s growing lack of care for efficiency, simplicity, and excellence as a problem to be solved. He addresses the following points one by one:

  • Everything is unbearably slow
  • Everything is too large
  • Bitrot
  • Half-baked products get shipped
  • The same old problems recur again and again
  • Most code has grown too complex to refactor
  • Business is uninterested in improvement

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 03 2018, @10:23PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 03 2018, @10:23PM (#743702)

    I want a simple OS that I control with simple applications that do their tasks fast and without trying to "help" me.

    Tiny Core: http://www.tinycorelinux.net/ [tinycorelinux.net]

  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by suburbanitemediocrity on Thursday October 04 2018, @12:26AM

    by suburbanitemediocrity (6844) on Thursday October 04 2018, @12:26AM (#743770)

    QNX offered that 20 years ago. It fit on a 1.2MB floppy drive and due to its real-time design was very fast on a 486.

  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday October 04 2018, @03:25PM

    by Freeman (732) on Thursday October 04 2018, @03:25PM (#744130) Journal

    I've toyed with Tiny Core for a while now, but it's never taken hold of me. I love the tiny size, including resource usage, but getting Wi-Fi to work on that thing is stupid hard. Then, when I do get Wi-Fi working, it only wants to use PSK instead of a user/pass. I recently tried AntiX and that seems to be more along the line of what I want / need. While, I would love a tiny distro like Tiny Core, I need some things to just work. That way I can focus on the specifics for my project, and no the underlying OS.

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    Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"