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The primary user of your implementation is the next developer to maintain it.
by eikenberry 13y ago
The primary user of your implementation is the next developer to maintain it.
- kelnos 13y agoThe user of a piece of software is more important than its current or future maintainers.
- rschmitty 13y agoYes but current or future users want reliability, features, and speed. If you care about your users in the long term you should care about the project's maintainers.
- kelnos 13y agoI suggested a relative ordering of importance; nowhere did I imply that one was important and the other was not.
- eikenberry 13y agoThinking like this is why we have so much crappy software out there.