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On Disenchantment with the Current State of Software Development

posted by chromas on Wednesday October 03 2018, @09:12PM   
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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• Re:Us greybeards are way ahead of you Re:Us greybeards are way ahead of you (Score: 2) by black6host on Thursday October 04 2018, @01:11AM (2 children)

  by black6host (3827) on Thursday October 04 2018, @01:11AM (#743794) Journal

  Folks just should have stuck with "Hello World!" Although I'm sure there are many who could screw that up. : )

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• Re:Us greybeards are way ahead of you Re:Us greybeards are way ahead of you (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @10:33AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @10:33AM (#743971)

  It's possible to screw it up. Ever tried to install and configure node.js using npm just to get Hello World out?

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  • Re:Us greybeards are way ahead of you (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @11:34AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @11:34AM (#743987)

    It's not even funny..

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