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a large part of why it took 7 weeks was the work they had done over the last 10 months to gather requirements and translate them to code. the exact form of the
by zem 3y ago
a large part of why it took 7 weeks was the work they had done over the last 10 months to gather requirements and translate them to code. the exact form of the code is merely the last stage in the process - i wager it would have taken them considerably longer than 7 weeks if they were starting the react site from scratch.
- Tteriffic 3y agoAbsolutely
- milesvp 3y agoyou are certainly correct. But there is a sentence that stood out to me, one where he said that devs needed to wait up to a minute to see their changes. I’ve personally felt the slog of writing code that takes easily 2 minutes to see changes, compile, flash unit, connect via bluetooth see if change shows what’s expected in some blackbox app. It’s maddening, and slows things way down, trying to keep the thought of what you were trying to do for that long is difficult and leads to lots of wasted tests. I largely suspect it’s an exponential function and the longer the feedback the exponentially longer the code takes to write. 1 minute is a long time, and I could see if you could get that loop under 10 seconds you could shave off months of dev time. Hell, I just recently changed a test timeout I was working with from 2 seconds to 1 second, and my morale improved in ways that surprised me even knowing all this.