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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: 2) by istartedi on Thursday October 04 2018, @07:15AM

    by istartedi (123) on Thursday October 04 2018, @07:15AM (#743898) Journal

    After a couple decades of "just throw more hardware at it" because "developer cycles are more expensive", is it any wonder that Hello World is several megs and could just as easily mine a bitcoin when you run it?

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