A recent post was talking about software as an expression of an idea. If you take something simple like a text editor, which purpose is to edit text, you can go

A recent post was talking about software as an expression of an idea. If you take something simple like a text editor, which purpose is to edit text, you can go and express this simple idea however you like. The final result will be different according to the person/people who shaped it. And that is why you have things ranging from nano, vim,... to sublime and vs code. To go from an idea to a product, there are just too many variables in play, and most of them depends on people. > I would love to see a standardized metric for accounting for assets and liabilities. I'd say that is easy. Just compare what the business wants/needs to what is inside the codebase. The diff percentage is a nice basis for the above. But that would require a very detailed study of both the company processes and the codebase itself. I think that's why most of us feel the need to build our own tool. Because the ideas represented by the software we are using are not what we would have come with. And thus, we're building extensions and plugins.