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> No one cares about how the code is written. I would overstate: No one even cares how architecture is done. Unless you are the one fixing it or maintaining i
by larodi 8mo ago
> No one cares about how the code is written.
I would overstate:
No one even cares how architecture is done. Unless you are the one fixing it or maintaining it.
Sorry, no one. We all know Apple did some great stuff with their code, but we care more about the awful work done on the UI, right? I mean - the UI seems to not be breaking in these new OSs which is amazing feature... for a game perhaps, and most likely the code is top notch. But we care about other things.
This is the reality, and the blind notion that so-many people care about code is super untrue. Perhaps someone putting money on developers care, but we have so many examples already of money put on implementation no matter what the code is. We can see everywhere funds thrown at obnoxious implementations, and particularly in large enterprises, that are only sustained by the weird ecosystem of white-collar jobs that sustains this impression.
Very few people care about the code in total, and this can be observed very easy, perhaps it can be proved no other way around is possible.
- TimTheTinker 8mo agoThis is overstating it. Computers are amazing machines, and modern operating systems are also amazing. But even they cannot completely mask the downstream effects of poor quality code. You say you don't care, but I bet you do when you're dealing with a problem caused by poor code quality or bad choices made by the developer.
- miningape 8mo agoYep willing to bet that the majority of people saying "users don't care how well the code is written" will crash out when some software they're using is slow and buggy, even more extremely if it glitches and deletes their work. Just like how most people don't care how well a bridge is designed... until it collapses.
- larodi 8mo agoyes, they will hit the TV or through the remote, or bang the mouse, or the box. I mean - if you tell me this is 'care', no... this is outrage, and it would probably not even be focused to one particular component. and for what is worth - the reason of failure may not be because of particular nut, but the combination of them all. the whole idea that most software is done in good faith is just plainly wrong, and most of the software we rely on a daily basis - all the enterprise bullshit - is very very very often not done in good faith, but rather just made, seamed, helped into some weird equilibrium of temporary performance. perhaps hardware is done right more than software ever is.