canpolat@programming.dev to Programming@programming.devEnglish · 1 year agoIs software getting worse?blog.ploeh.dkexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
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minus-squareNoughmad@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoEh. This “everything else” are stuff that previously didn’t even exist. There used to be only professional tools and a few games, now you have an app (or multiple apps) for everything. And I’ll take a garbage program over one that doesn’t exist.
minus-squarepkulak@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoFair point. Maybe there’s only ever been so many good software folks, and they are all working on the same stuff they used to.
Eh.
This “everything else” are stuff that previously didn’t even exist. There used to be only professional tools and a few games, now you have an app (or multiple apps) for everything.
And I’ll take a garbage program over one that doesn’t exist.
Fair point. Maybe there’s only ever been so many good software folks, and they are all working on the same stuff they used to.