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Software development is a very young and immature field compared to many fields/industries. I mean, the Hippocratic Oath and _some_ form of organised medicine

Software development is a very young and immature field compared to many fields/industries. I mean, the Hippocratic Oath and _some_ form of organised medicine has been around for 2,500+ years. Modern manufacturing has been around for a few centuries. etc. Yes, they all change and develop - and use software within them to drive some of that change - but many industries are mature and stable. Software is not. 5 years ago you would build a frontend website one way, now you'd use a completely different set of tools/technologies. Wait 5 years and it will have completely changed again. It's a similar case with software development methodologies, backend approaches/languages (etc), too. Plus many industries have some form of enforced standards or monitoring, whilst software certainly does not.

MaxBarraclough 7y ago
> 5 years ago you would build a frontend website one way, now you'd use a completely different set of tools/technologies. Wait 5 years and it will have completely changed again. This is certainly true of web front-end work, yes, but that's the most fad-driven area of software development. Operating systems' kernels are still written in C, though, just like in the 70's. (Well, a different version of the C language, granted.) > Plus many industries have some form of enforced standards or monitoring, whilst software certainly does not. Indeed. Only in a very few specific sectors, such as aviation, are there formalised standards. Incidentally, modern medical ethics are very different from the Hippocratic Oath.