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A lot of nostalgia for an era that didn't exist: “It has never been more difficult to be a software developer than it is today...” and “Everything was so much s
by zwieback 5y ago
A lot of nostalgia for an era that didn't exist: “It has never been more difficult to be a software developer than it is today...” and “Everything was so much simpler before..."
SW dev has always been overly complex, long before AWS and the web existed. It's just how we do things in software engineering. Too many choices and lack of physical constraints leads us right to the edge of where things totally fall apart.
- bmitc 5y agoJust because it's always been complex doesn't mean the complexity isn't increasing. Software development is ridiculously complex, increasingly so, and one often doesn't have any tools to deal with it.
- adminscoffee 5y agoi think it's done for job security. kinda like antivirus software always had new "threats", but that's probably not true, it just feels sometimes like we are reinventing the wheel to keep tech jobs relevant, at least in certain fields
- qsort 5y agoIf this were the case, you'd see at least some people/orgs doing better and spending less than the current "best practice". I don't think it's reasonable to say software developers are just fooling everyone.
- pjmlp 5y agoVB 6/Delphi in a 3-tier application versus HTML/CSS/JS npm spaghetti pretending to be a GUI framework instead of interactive documents.
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