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How's web development any different from other "branches" of software development when it comes to technical debt or deep dependency trees?! It's been the norm
by gotchange 11y ago
How's web development any different from other "branches" of software development when it comes to technical debt or deep dependency trees?!
It's been the norm in the field of software development since the early days to rely on other people's work for productivity reasons and many other objectives and consequently the trade-off of convenience with technical debt whether in implicit or explicit terms. I don't think that web development is more guilty of this "sin" than any other branch of the field.
- chipotle_coyote 11y agoYou might be right. From exploring other open source applications my impression is that there tends to be many times more external libraries, tools and plugins pulled in by modern web applications when compared to, say, a Cocoa/Objective-C application of moderate size, though.
- colllectorof 11y agoThe difference is that we've seen that the other kind of web development (without grapevines of libraries and complex toolchains) is both possible and capable of producing usable results. We're regressing.