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Nobody ever adopts it because nobody wants to support it, ergo nobody ever adopts it and nothing ever improves. Gotta love this little cycle of mediocrity the s
by nmz 4y ago
Nobody ever adopts it because nobody wants to support it, ergo nobody ever adopts it and nothing ever improves. Gotta love this little cycle of mediocrity the software world has going on.
- astrobe_ 4y agoThis type of circular argument sometimes hit a nerve when it about a thing cares about, but lets remember that the literal sense of "mediocre" is "middle" or "average", so its kind of a tautology to say that in general, software is average. It takes true nerds (or "geek" in the sense it had around 2000, when it was still a bit derogatory and not yet a fashionable identity marker) to go off the beaten path.
- nmz 4y agoGuess I mispoke, if everyone adopted it, then that quality of software would become the new average. this software is just inferior, which in software usually means that its harmful. Adj. 1. mediocre - moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"