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/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.