«So everything is just a pile of barely working code added on top of previously written barely working code. It keeps growing in size and complexity, diminishing any chance for a change.»
and on the same line
«Websites downloading 50Mb of data and making hundreds of requests to serve 6Kb worth of text.»
@desantis I'm not into software development for web apps but I've experienced the second point you mention in scientific programming. Using fortran to run extremely fast simulations was something not well accepted. Even if that software was not something I had to collaborate or share with other people.
@ma_se_mo_la Hat tip to you. I work in high performance computing, and the biggest trend I am seeing now is Python attempting to take over everything, with its ungodly amount of dependencies/virtualenv's, even if simple Fortran/C will not only suffice, but perform hundreds of times better.
@ma_se_mo_la Wow, this is uncanny. I was talking with a colleague yesterday whose goal this year is to get a cloud certification - which made me reflect upon a specific article that basically stated don't attempt to trouble-shoot and/or fix issues on cloud assets. Instead, just reprovision as need be. That makes me wonder how long it will take before the software-side of the application is thoroughly vetted and corrected.
@ma_se_mo_la Personally, I think this comes down to two things:
1. Not knowing about or not using the right tool for the job. Why install a framework and spend time configuring software when plain text/simple HTML will do?
2. Pressure and/or shame from others for not using the newest and trendiest software bloat available? Think PERL/BASH. "Oh, you're using PERL to process text and regular expressions? You should be using node.js"
Of course, I am highly biased but these opinions are based upon real observations over the years.