Someone, a one day old account, wrote and then deleted this while I was writing a reply: > No other engineering discipline thinks this way. You design circuits

Someone, a one day old account, wrote and then deleted this while I was writing a reply: > No other engineering discipline thinks this way. You design circuits for performance, manufacturing, and cost, not other engineers. Yeah, that's why we don't produce schematics, diagrams, and blueprints or maintain those things over the years. Software development is a design discipline, not a construction discipline. The analogs in engineering disciplines to source code are not the circuit, the car, or the bridge artifacts, but the schematics, diagrams, and models that go into their development. And yes, practitioners in engineering disciplines absolutely care about communicating with other people (including other engineers), that's a substantial portion of their job in fact.