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> If programmers paid half the attention their code deserves, I bet most of the software we use would be 2x faster, on average I'm so sick hearing about "lazy
by Andrex 3y ago
> If programmers paid half the attention their code deserves, I bet most of the software we use would be 2x faster, on average
I'm so sick hearing about "lazy devs." Because I was one! I left a programming career because JS is fun for me and I didn't want it to stop just being a fun hobby. (The money and prestige tricked me into thinking it was my life's calling.)
But I worked with many people who were way smarter and harder working. And we still had to ship shitty code sometimes. Money paid the bills, perfect code was a luxury.
There has to be an economic incentive for this to change. There's hundreds of millions of programmers but only a few dozen relevant tech CEOs.
- bayindirh 3y agoDid I say the developers don't pay attention to their code because they are lazy? I don't think so. I'm aware that the situation we're in is because of the money-first approach in many software houses, and everyone needs to ship bad code sometimes because of the reasons they don't have control over. However, there are also examples of very fast and nice software which are also closed source and sold for good money (OmniGraffle, BBEdit, Pixelmator, iA Writer, MindNode, etc.), and they work really fast and efficient for what they do, because while they're for profit, apparently their management understands that good code brings good money. Let's not jump to conclusions from ambiguous sentences. I may have clarified it a bit, I guess, but it's very late here.