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+1. By now I've given up hope that software development will ever become a true engineering discipline, or even just somewhat close to it. Bungling it is so m
by tempodox 1y ago
+1. By now I've given up hope that software development will ever become a true engineering discipline, or even just somewhat close to it. Bungling it is so much cheaper and practically everyone seems to accept the current bad state of affairs. Only small subfields are exceptions to this.
- ozim 1y agoI pretty much don’t know a team that doesn’t have at least testing/staging environments. I don’t know a team that doesn’t use GIT and some issue tracker. That’s already engineering. Your sentiment is cute but I think you have some romantic vision of what „real engineering” is.
- exasperaited 1y agoThose are (trivial) software project management. It's a tiny part of the picture. Software engineering goes a lot deeper than that; look at any serious accredited syllabus. But almost nobody practises it these days, you are right. The web kind of blurred the line between software and document for a while and a lot of stuff got lost. That's not a reason to practise even less.
- ozim 1y agoCan you give an example because your „accredited syllabus” is vague. Keep in mind I have engineering degree and 15 years of experience so you are not writing back to 20 years old hack who just learned PHP.