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

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: 3, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday October 04 2018, @04:00AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday October 04 2018, @04:00AM (#743836) Homepage Journal

    there is just too much source, and not enough eyeballs that actually lift a finger - or rather, an eyelid - to inspect that source.

    Instead we have my experience with gedit on Slackware a while back, where all the text that was below the visible part of the window simply disappeared into the ether.

    Yes really: you could type The Great American Novel into a very very tall window, but when you scrolled back up after typing "The End" you would find that the last page was all that remained.

    "Release early and often" is in my opinion the problem and not the solution.

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    Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
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