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I would probably just call it hand coding, as we say we use hand tools in wood working. Many do this for fun, but knowing the hand tools also makes you a better
by djha-skin 8mo ago
I would probably just call it hand coding, as we say we use hand tools in wood working. Many do this for fun, but knowing the hand tools also makes you a better woodworker.
It's an interesting question: Will coding turn out to be more like landscaping, where (referring to the practice specifically of cutting grass) no one uses hand tools (to a first approximation)? Or it will it be more like woodworking, where everyone at least knows where a Stanley hand plane is in their work shop?
- rnimmer 8mo agoCan't wait to sell my artisinal hand-crafted software at the farmer's market. Humor aside, long-handed programming is losing its ability to compete in an open market. Automate or be left behind. This will become increasingly true of many fields, not just software.
- bandrami 8mo agoIs it though? Really? I'm still waiting for even one of my vendors, commercial or open source, to actually speed up their release cadence.
- spppedury 8mo agoVS Code Insiders is releasing 3 times a day. Used to be at most once.
- bandrami 8mo agoThat's actually a great point: judging by the dev team's commits at work there's an unprecedented amount of code being committed but it's not actually making it into releases any faster. Maybe the same thing is happening at my various vendors, but then that kind of argues against the idea that Everything Has Just Changed.