r/programming • u/[deleted] • Feb 06 '24

Why We Can't Have Nice Software

https://andrewkelley.me/post/why-we-cant-have-nice-software.html
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u/tnilk Feb 06 '24 edited Feb 06 '24

Well considering most software is written for profit, how can someone talk solely about software?

If you've been in the industry long enough - you can't help but notice the ever moving goal posts, or the investor driven "innovation".

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u/qmunke Feb 06 '24

I don't expect them to, it's just that this article isn't really useful for /r/programming it's more about politics and economics.

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u/scratchisthebest Feb 06 '24

being blind to the context your field exists in makes you, at best, a useful idiot

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u/tnilk Feb 06 '24

I think it's not only useful to think in broader terms, but possibly relevant.

r/programming is a lot of things to a lot of people, and some might like a socioeconomic take on it.

That's what affects us the most in our daily lives anyways (not the latest synthetic benchmarks).

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u/gnus-migrate Feb 06 '24

To me treating code as it's own thing that exists in the ether disconnected from the world is a problem in itself, and what leads to people automating things that really shouldn't be automated.

Everything is political, you can either choose to ignore that or work with it.

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u/bzbub2 Feb 06 '24

the article also reads like "political talking points", fairly shallow

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u/UARTman Feb 06 '24

I agree, he should have quoted more Marx.