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Unpopular HN opinion: we need more commercial SWE tools. This is the expected outcome of under-organized underfunded ad-hoc development of professional tools.
by parhamn 6y ago
Unpopular HN opinion: we need more commercial SWE tools. This is the expected outcome of under-organized underfunded ad-hoc development of professional tools.
- bartread 6y agoWhilst reading about this I found myself thinking back to my days as a student, writing C++ with Visual Studio 6. If you were able to install everything, including the documentation, to your hard drive you never really needed anything else (which was good, because I didn't have internet access at home to begin with - too pricey). You had high quality development and debugging tools, and then in MSDN you had this absolutely exhaustive, encyclopaedic documentation that covered every possible topic in depth, and a good enough search function that you could usually find what you were looking for without too much difficulty. In some ways - not all ways - those were the days.
- carapace 6y agoHmm, if you put it like, "We should pay for quality tools." I think it comes off less unpopular maybe?
- mumblemumble 6y agoI find that it's nearly impossible to argue for this when it matters. It's kind of magical how the reasoning works. We can't increase development capacity by paying for more person-hours, because developer time is far too expensive. We can't increase development capacity by paying for more productive tools, because developer time is basically free.
- carapace 6y agoI've noticed that too! It's like basic business principles are warped in the presence of too many computers.