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> How are we getting away with this? Isn’t someone going to catch on soon? How many “new platforms” do we have to make, before people start realising that rewr

> How are we getting away with this? Isn’t someone going to catch on soon? How many “new platforms” do we have to make, before people start realising that rewriting everything, using “the latest tech” is not going to solve the problems that matter? There's a very simple solution: The tools will need to change more slowly. This will happen when operating systems, frameworks, and programming languages mature so much that it's fundamentally difficult to make meaningful improvements to them. We're not there yet; but perhaps its time to start working in that direction?

saiya-jin 4y ago
Man, the most brilliant folks I've ever met in software dev realm in past 20 years were always, without exception, the least patient ones. They get bored very quickly with mundane use of stable set of frameworks and libs. Doing yet another similar app and not something obscure, using bleeding edge stuff (and bugs). By bored I mean resigning, often immediately. They are basically spoiled little brats thanx to their talent, and (some) companies tolerate that since they do deliver. But often they need to be babisitted by managers to clean any mundane tasks from their roads, so you sometimes have a little ecosystem of people or even teams working around one 10x dev. Mostly still worth it for the companies, but there is hidden price that shows often very late, ie 6 months after they leave and somebody has to change their brilliant cathedrals a bit. And one thing is as sure as death and taxes - changes will always keep coming. What you describe would be hell for them, they would keep tinkering and keep creating new frameworks, languages or even whole platforms just for given problem, because that's fun for them. That's how it all started anyway.
- gwbas1c 4y ago
  > What you describe would be hell for them, they would keep tinkering and keep creating new frameworks, languages or even whole platforms just for given problem, because that's fun for them. That's how it all started anyway. I think at that point the people you describe will move to a newer field where things are still changing quickly.

saiya-jin 4y ago

Man, the most brilliant folks I've ever met in software dev realm in past 20 years were always, without exception, the least patient ones. They get bored very quickly with mundane use of stable set of frameworks and libs. Doing yet another similar app and not something obscure, using bleeding edge stuff (and bugs). By bored I mean resigning, often immediately. They are basically spoiled little brats thanx to their talent, and (some) companies tolerate that since they do deliver. But often they need to be babisitted by managers to clean any mundane tasks from their roads, so you sometimes have a little ecosystem of people or even teams working around one 10x dev. Mostly still worth it for the companies, but there is hidden price that shows often very late, ie 6 months after they leave and somebody has to change their brilliant cathedrals a bit. And one thing is as sure as death and taxes - changes will always keep coming. What you describe would be hell for them, they would keep tinkering and keep creating new frameworks, languages or even whole platforms just for given problem, because that's fun for them. That's how it all started anyway.

gwbas1c 4y ago
> What you describe would be hell for them, they would keep tinkering and keep creating new frameworks, languages or even whole platforms just for given problem, because that's fun for them. That's how it all started anyway. I think at that point the people you describe will move to a newer field where things are still changing quickly.