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Software cannot get leaner, because that takes time, skill and highly paid people, not just people gluing together examples from 12 different tech stacks into a
by lelanthran 3y ago
Software cannot get leaner, because that takes time, skill and highly paid people, not just people gluing together examples from 12 different tech stacks into a frankensuite.
I'm an independent developer, and the person who learned node.js last year, who will throw node.js, containers, random AWS hosted DB services, lambda services, object storage, cloudflare, yaml, react, vite and other dependencies together to produce a cookie cutter, yet still very fragile, webapp together in a day will always bid lower than me.
The lean, fast, cheap to run and cheaper to maintain software just can't be written profitably, even if it is cheaper in the long run.
- mrd3v0 3y agoYup, it is not about awareness, it's about how the economy is structured. If people are paid for unsustainable software, they'll do it.
- fuzzfactor 3y ago>The world ships too much code, most of it by third parties, sometimes unintended, most of it uninspected. Because of this, there is a huge attack surface full of mediocre code. And that's just the attack surface when it comes to leanness mediocrity. The "defect & deficiency surface" is much larger than the attack surface, and defects are always doing their deeds while attacks are (hopefully) relatively seldom.