The ecosystem is flooded with over-engineered bespoke solutions, and is sorely lacking in standardized approaches and best practices. It's a core reason why sof

The ecosystem is flooded with over-engineered bespoke solutions, and is sorely lacking in standardized approaches and best practices. It's a core reason why software development cannot reasonably be called engineering, as engineering principles are either never applied or discarded on a whim. It won't change until we can form a guild (professional association) and turn it into a bonafide profession. Right now, code that one developer creates may be unrecognizable by another developer, even though both are working in the same domain. It would be a disaster if one lawyer could not follow a brief written by another or a doctor could not decipher which techniques were used by another to perform a particular surgical procedure. "Just because you can drive a car with your feet if you wanted to, doesn't make it a good fucking idea!" --Chris Rock.