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Ask HN: What do you think, which is harder.. developing features or fixing bugs?
- theandrewbailey 4y agoI'm sending this ticket back because requirements aren't clear/can't reproduce. \s Serious answer: depends on the specific bugs or features in question. Some features are harder than bugs, but some bugs are harder than features.
- mikewarot 4y agoThose are the same thing, problem solving by extending/revising a code base.
- ironmagma 4y agoI agree generally, but my feeling is that fixing bugs is usually harder, because a good chunk of the time, you don't know the code you're looking at, whereas with feature development, it's all greenfield. At least in most environments.
- PaulHoule 4y agoWe had this conversation at work this morning because my current project is porting a feature from one system to another very similar system (ultimately forked from the same code.) The basic "implementation" is a cut-and-paste job but almost all the work is tracking down whatever problem turn up. Even though the end result is a very showy feature visible to end users the actual work is a search-and-destroy mission for bugs.