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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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Original Submission

• OK you're the best judge of YOUR skills OK you're the best judge of YOUR skills (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @02:04PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @02:04PM (#744075)

  Wrong. It's very clear you have no idea whatsoever of the magnitude of such a task.

  Give me a couple minutes to stop laughing at your lousy telepathy. Thanks.
  I simply sat and done it, instead of bitching. I do not talk about hypotheticals. But if you're sure the task is too great a "magnitude" for you, then it most certainly is.

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• I'm an excellent judge of task complexity. (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Thursday October 04 2018, @10:20PM

  by fyngyrz (6567) on Thursday October 04 2018, @10:20PM (#744360) Journal

  I simply sat and done[sic] it

  Yes? Show your work. I'm perfectly ready to believe you... on that basis. Otherwise, not a chance. :)

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