Or maybe software craftmanship was always dead (and still lives on). Good enough is sometimes perfect, and a good example of that was a HN post today about how

Or maybe software craftmanship was always dead (and still lives on). Good enough is sometimes perfect, and a good example of that was a HN post today about how the makers of CP/M looked after their customers, and made a beautiful compiler for a new language to build their version 2, but in the end they were beaten by a hacky clone of their software which was then bought by Microsoft, and then you know the rest. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46426614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46426614 But craftmanship lives on as market differentiation, which is how Apple became dominant. It also lives on in critical software where attention to detail is vital or extremely high-value (eg. Linux kernel, cryptography libraries, aerospace/automotive, medtech), basically anything where downtime or incorrect behaviour costs money or lives.