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Software Disenchantment (tonsky.me)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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Recently re-discovered this gem of a blog post, written in 2018 by Nikita Propokov, about his disenchantment with the state of modern software. Do you think it's still relevant today (perhaps more/less so than it was when it was written)?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My current project is building a (almost) 1gb Java rich client which takes around 2minites to load... while it's merely a gui with some small client to client capabilities. The technical debt is insane, and it's only getting worse because neither can they afford to rebuild it from scratch.

[–] DinosaurSr 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In similar boat(s) too. Like watching a train wreck.