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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: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Thursday October 04 2018, @11:52AM (1 child)

    by VLM (445) on Thursday October 04 2018, @11:52AM (#743997)

    So this all boils down to, "you can write Java in any language"

    With a side dish of the only difference in poor performance between the software devs and, say, the VP of diversity, is you can trivially measure the job performance of the software devs. So the accounting woman who takes 3x longer than it "should" to process reimbursements, or the HR people who mostly turn valuable oxygen into greenhouse gasses, are just as incompetent but never measured and reported. The sales droids have a numeric result, but what they promise the customer need have no relationship with reality, unlike the devs.

    At LEAST half the W-2 workers in any business were below the median in their educational classes because higher performers tend to not do W-2 type of work, so the bulk of code "in the wild" is always going to be at or below the median of "Java 101" homework standards.

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  • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Thursday October 04 2018, @05:00PM

    by jmorris (4844) on Thursday October 04 2018, @05:00PM (#744180)

    Now that is a dank take on the world. Everything sucks. And probably accurate. May SMOD relieve our suffering!