• AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    It’s not mature, because nobody let it mature.

    Programming is over 70 years old, that’s not a new discipline. Yet, the engineering in our industry is still abysmal. Countless reinvented wheels, nothing is ever finished, changes happen often enough for the sake of change, not progress.

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      1 year ago

      That’s part of the nature of programming. Half-finished might be good enough. If you’ve made an awesome wheel but I need a kink in one of my spokes and yours doesn’t do that, making my own wheel might be cheaper than modding yours.

      OTOH, there’s nothing more frustrating than looking for a particular wheel, finding ten really great ones that collectively have the features you need, but individually aren’t good enough.

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        1 year ago

        To stay in the analogy: usually we just want to transport things from a to b. It doesn’t matter, how we get there. So usually we begin with a road and start to cobble together a vehicle from barely fitting and functioning junk we find on the roadside.

        There’s hardly any stable surface to work on. And that’s extremely costly.