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Some of these responses are high level stuff that ignores the day to day hurdles of most projects (validation of complex systems, wtf), some are right on the mo
by Supermancho 7y ago
Some of these responses are high level stuff that ignores the day to day hurdles of most projects (validation of complex systems, wtf), some are right on the money.
I can think of 2 ripe opportunities, that I reference often.
1. Comments integrated with code as associated records that can overlap, which provides context, not merely inlined comments. The state of understanding code is horrendously inefficient by design.
2. Put a more type safe language on the browser with concurrency primitives. Promises are a hack improvement and Python is too rigid in ideology to make it eventially compatible.
- RoyalPain 7y agoA funny story with regards to the first point : We have some legacy code at my work which is basically in "do not touch or it'll break" mode. Last year a senior developer who used to maintain it retired. Before he left, he copied the code into a PDF and annotated the PDF with his thoughts and advice. He didn't want to risk breaking the code on his last week by adding the comments directly to the code.