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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: 2) by goodie on Thursday October 04 2018, @01:01AM

    by goodie (1877) on Thursday October 04 2018, @01:01AM (#743786) Journal

    This is more about software development than software per se. But it relates anyway... Much of what is done is about re-doing the same thing over and over again, just for the sake of it. New framework? Redo what you already implemented with it! And on, and on. I am not a software developer anymore but back then it used to annoy me quite a bit. I long for stability. I am not reluctant to change, but there has to be a good reason for it. Most of the time, I felt like there was not. Could be wrong though...

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