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>everything has a 3-5 year engineering life This isn’t true for all industries. Some have software systems with engineering life measured in decades
by bumby 4y ago
>everything has a 3-5 year engineering life
This isn’t true for all industries. Some have software systems with engineering life measured in decades
- oblio 4y agoTrue, but what percentage of software engineers work on those? The only pool of software that both employs a large number of engineers, has an engineering life measured in decades and isn't rewritten every 3-5 years to a large degree is enterprise software, in my experience. Think C/C++/Java/.NET middleware type stuff. And I imagine 90% of HN actively runs away from those jobs :-)
- bumby 4y agoI wouldn't know. But I imagine there's an availability bias. I've worked in more 'traditional' engineering fields (manufacturing, energy, healthcare, aerospace) and the vast, vast majority are long tenured systems built for dedicated uses. I've worked on many systems that are older than me. For those in SV, I imagine it's the opposite. Like you said, HN may be biased to a specific type of development which often leads to biased claims. Tbf, my main issue is with the "everything" modifier in the OPs claim.