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I agree. I think people on HN generally underestimate the extent to which developers themselves push to work on new features instead of maintenance. It's often
by thinkharderdev 5y ago
I agree. I think people on HN generally underestimate the extent to which developers themselves push to work on new features instead of maintenance. It's often a different kind of feature though. I can't count how many times in my career devs (including me!) instantly jumped to "we need to rewrite X using new framework Y" in response to technical debt in X.
- k__ 5y agoI only saw that behavior in younger devs. The average dev just does their job. Same as with the average person in every industry. Sure, it's nice to do a cool feature, but most people don't work at interesting projects to start with, and they simply have to churn on. There isn't much difference between a new feature or maintenance in boring projects.