Comment by criemen

I wanted to point you at https://neverworkintheory.org/ which attempted to bridge the gap between academia and software engineering. Turns out the site shut down, because (quoting their retrospective)

> Twelve years after It Will Never Work in Theory launched, the real challenge in software engineering research is not what to do about ChatGPT or whatever else Silicon Valley is gushing about at the moment. Rather, it is how to get researchers to focus on problems that practitioners care about and practitioners to pay attention to what researchers discover. This was true when we started, it was true 10 years ago, and it remains true today.

The entire retrospective [1] is well worth a read, and unfortunately reinforcing your exact point about software development being fashion/emotion driven.

[1] https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/so/2024/03/10424425/1...