Comment by bigfishrunning
2 days ago
So the average bar for software is very low, and most people writing it don't care about software quality and just want a paycheck to cash?
I've been saying this for years.
2 days ago
So the average bar for software is very low, and most people writing it don't care about software quality and just want a paycheck to cash?
I've been saying this for years.
I wouldn't say it like that exactly, though you're not wrong either. People just heavily discount the value of future efficiency gains due to nuanced architectural/stylistic choices. I think this is in part because people have a limited expectation that the code will survive long enough for it to matter, or that they'll be at the company long enough to reap the rewards of the up front work.