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> But 10 year old books are still completly valid while in software every couple of years a new framewokr is the new hot shit The more I look at it, the more i
by Swizec 4y ago
> But 10 year old books are still completly valid while in software every couple of years a new framewokr is the new hot shit
The more I look at it, the more it feels like software hasn’t had a fundamentally new idea in decades. Frameworks improve, networks get bigger, compute gets cheaper, and we spend most of our time dealing with domain modeling, cache, and statistical inference.
We’ve made great strides in the ease of building and encoded many lessons in our frameworks, scale is bigger too, but the underlying guts of software engineering have been very stable for decades.
- Shinmon 4y agoI agree actually...kind of. And there are good books about software architecture and so on. Unfortunately, for each good one there are at least 50 that are really really bad. There are a lot of technology-related books as well, that teach you about responsive web design with react or stuff like this. Encoding lessons in frameworks isn't always helpful either in my opinion. Your mental model of the software needs to be correct, otherwise it's just a really painful experience. What works for large scale software is often just pain for beginners.