Software disenchantment
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Recently re-discovered this gem of a blog post, written in 2018 by Nikita Propokov, about his disenchantment with the state of modern software. Do you think it’s still relevant today (perhaps more/less so than it was when it was written)?

  • FrostyPolicy@suppo.fiEnglish
    91·
    1 year ago

    Basically anything above assembly is a high level language. The article is not about making everything from scratch. It’s about thinking about what you’re doing and not just being lazy.

    • ShrimpsIsBugs@feddit.de
      3·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think it’s about laziness, but rather about having deadlines set by management that you can only possible meet by reusing stuff as much as possible - even if you only actually need 5 % of this stuff but got to package everything of it in your application for it to work.