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> Because the goal of commercial software development isn’t to create code you love—it’s to create products your customers will love. The two are not mutually
by Supermighty 13y ago
> Because the goal of commercial software development isn’t to create code you love—it’s to create products your customers will love.
The two are not mutually exclusive.
- girvo 13y agoOf course not, but in my professional experience, often times it is :(
- Supermighty 13y agoMaybe I'm being overly optimistic. Where I work we rarely output code that is beautiful and lovely at the expense of creating deliverables on time. I blame our process. I think that we could do both if we adjusted a few of our assumptions. But then maybe I'm just a daydreamer.
- jh3 13y agoIs your sadface implying you are saddened by the lack of love you have for the code that creates products your customers love?
- girvo 13y agoYep. The products have been cool, the codebase monstrous. Painful legacy stuff mainly. "Architecture, what architecture?" But then, contracts for it were in the $millions range, so it was an experience!