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Applies to software bricklayers too. How much handmade software do we need, instead of reusing existing pieces?
by NotSammyHagar 7y ago
Applies to software bricklayers too. How much handmade software do we need, instead of reusing existing pieces?
- perl4ever 7y agoI remember Robert Heinlein had a vision of a future where houses were all built in factories. There was some essay where he ranted about how absurd it was that the average house was custom built like a Rolls Royce. Of course, we do have manufactured and modular housing today, but it's still normal to build structures much the same way as ever, and it's nearly 2020. I think eliminating handmade software ultimately is a proposition balanced between a tautology and an oxymoron; everything new that is created is "by hand" and everything else is existing software. Anything that can be reused is. Saying we need to reuse more is not right or wrong, it's just empty.