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That flexibility is a fantastic advantage of software over hardware, not a liability. You still can deliver software as an unchanging thing, but generally no on
by oivey 2y ago
That flexibility is a fantastic advantage of software over hardware, not a liability. You still can deliver software as an unchanging thing, but generally no one does because incrementally giving users something useful sooner is more valuable.
- ghaff 2y agoDepends how you use that flexibility. If it’s to add capabilities and fix minor problems that all products have, sure. If it’s to ship bug-ridden crap just because it can probably be fixed later, I’m less of a fan.
- patrick451 2y agoTheoretically, it could have been an advantage, but in practice it's not. What we got instead is a software ecosystem of slow, bug infested garbage that requires constant updates.
- whstl 2y agoThe flexibility is how software engineers are forced to forget the engineering part, so it does matter. Updates are fine. Forgetting quality because of the possibility of updating is not.