As a 0.01X developer I feel entitled to just ask the questions, I shouldn't attempt to answer them, that would be silly.
Why is the software never finished? Why does stuff stop working after a while?
Sounds like a lame thing to ask and I know enough of the answers to make it rhetorical.... but this isn't the only sector building things. We build a ton of stuff! The last few decades others are rushing out products too and they are as cheap as they are crappy but it wasn't always like that. Most things are actually good for a good while.
If you boot up the museum quality computer from back in the days, insert the floppy... woah everything just works!?
programming is just variables, if statements, for loops and function calls. Nothing new happened. The web browser was the last good idea.
Hardware is insanely fast, but everything runs slow? What productivity did we gain if we have to endlessly rewrite everything? (think: Newspeak 11th edition)
Project tool chain, project programming language and project package manager should have been finished by now?
Imagine it to be a race against mr fusion[0] and the flying cars[1].
Why is the software never finished? Why does stuff stop working after a while?
Sounds like a lame thing to ask and I know enough of the answers to make it rhetorical.... but this isn't the only sector building things. We build a ton of stuff! The last few decades others are rushing out products too and they are as cheap as they are crappy but it wasn't always like that. Most things are actually good for a good while.
If you boot up the museum quality computer from back in the days, insert the floppy... woah everything just works!?
programming is just variables, if statements, for loops and function calls. Nothing new happened. The web browser was the last good idea.
Hardware is insanely fast, but everything runs slow? What productivity did we gain if we have to endlessly rewrite everything? (think: Newspeak 11th edition)
Project tool chain, project programming language and project package manager should have been finished by now?
Imagine it to be a race against mr fusion[0] and the flying cars[1].
[0] - https://www.twitch.tv/ecatthenewfire
[1] - https://www.pal-v.com/en/explore-pal-v