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Frameworks and standards, definitely. But bug free software written do to exactly the right thing won't happen much. We're moving faster and faster, I don't thi
by codr7 6y ago
Frameworks and standards, definitely. But bug free software written do to exactly the right thing won't happen much. We're moving faster and faster, I don't think that's going to change. What seems to be happening more is designing around the fact to avoid disasters.
- goatlover 6y agoAt some point the technology matures and progress becomes incremental. Hundreds of years from now, there’s no reason to suppose our software would need to change much. We will have figured out what works best for humans over a variety of situations.
- codr7 6y agoTake light bulbs, pretty much perfected, so much that they had to make them worse to keep selling. And then suddenly LED-lights appear, and the whole thing starts over again only faster. The best predictor of the future is the past, I see no reason to assume evolution will slow down.
- fest 6y agoJudging from the rest of engineering disciplines, people figured out the right process that yields reliable results- we don't have too many civil engineering failures, exploding steam boilers or houses burning down because of overheating/arcing in the mains wiring anymore. Although the computer geeks are probably inclined to think: yes, but what we are dealing is more complex than that- I don't think there is a big difference between knowing how to safely connect two wires together, and how to safely copy one string to a buffer. Electricians took time to arrive at a consensus (but they did it), and I believe software engineers will too.