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I grew up in the 1980s, when you had to know your platform well to get nice software written. I find it annoying that there are a lot of young (and not-so-youn
by forinti 3y ago
I grew up in the 1980s, when you had to know your platform well to get nice software written.
I find it annoying that there are a lot of young (and not-so-young) developers who don't take the time to properly understand where their apps are running in order to make the best of it and also not to write crappy and slow software.
I see people climb mountains in Java when they had all they needed in the database or in the OS.
- throwaway894345 3y agoI also suspect people balk at infrastructure because it means learning a new and complicated thing to solve their problem, but the shape of the solution is the same whether they build it in their application as a library or whether they avail themselves of off-the-shelf infrastructure offerings (although there are some problems that can only be solved by infrastructure). Either way, you have to understand the solution at a high level, and I think much of the balking at infrastructure is really just balking at needing to understand the fundamental nature of their own problem.