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Is software just too easy to write that everything becomes incompatible. Everyone has the next best idea. It's XKCD 927 all the time. Now if you instead look a
by rhacker 6y ago
Is software just too easy to write that everything becomes incompatible. Everyone has the next best idea. It's XKCD 927 all the time.
Now if you instead look at Trucks and Campers, Rear Hitches, Fifth Wheels Hitches, Goose Neck Hitches. Every truck you can buy on the market today (with some strange exceptions Cybertruck cough) has very simple compatibility with all of these various trailer types. Yes in some cases you have to buy a mod kit, but when you look at the mod kit it literally bolts into pre-drilled holes in your truck frame. It's all plug and play.
I feel like the reason it's like this is because no one person can go off and design a truck in the dark. It's designed by many people and is beholden to customers.
Software, on the other hand, just gets built by whoever wants to build something. It doesn't have to fit some kind of standard. And it's not like there are a lot of standards that already exist in whatever it is that the software is doing.
In the real world however, you have Kubota tractors that need to fit a CAT bucket.
I mean just read this page:
https://www.spartanequipment.com/pages/buying-tips/attachments-buyers-guide.html https://www.spartanequipment.com/pages/buying-tips/attachmen...
Small quirks to it, but yeah, the rest of the world really is Legos, Software is organ transplant.