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)?

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    221·
    2 years ago

    IMO, it’s more relevant today than it was when written. None of the problems called out in the post have been addressed, and many have gotten worse.

    • ebits21@lemmy.caEnglish
      92·
      2 years ago

      Why would it get better? Higher level programming is faster and saves companies money… they’re not going back to super efficient assembly or something to make xyz from scratch.

      Article has a bit of an “old man yelling at clouds” sort of vibe.

      • PixxlMan@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 years ago

        He’s talking about ridiculous programming stacks and bloated tooling and things. Not once does he level any criticisms at higher level languages in general

        • ebits21@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          The frameworks and tooling stacks are just even higher level abstractions.