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)?

  • 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.