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truly the power of innovation (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by big_spoon@lemmygrad.ml to c/latestagecapitalism@lemmygrad.ml

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who needs free software or getting rid of planned obsolescence?

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[–] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

As well, because of those high-level libraries, programming is a lot easier than it used to be. Unfortunately, that means that we just hire cheaper developers that aren’t as skilled, and they have a harder time tracking down and fixing bugs. Which is doubly worse because those higher-level libraries are black boxes, and you can’t always fix things that arise inside of them easily.

The Luke Smith/ Mental Outlaw type chuds call these developers "soydevs".

[–] RedClouds@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I'm not one to use insulting terms, it's more of a natural process of an industry lowering the bar to entry.

But there really is something to be said for those old applications that were built rock solid, even if they only came out with a new version once every four years.

More frequent releases of a smaller feature set isn't wrong. I'd be happy getting high quality application updates every month or so.

But as with all things, the analysis falls on the side that capitalism just doesn't incentivize the right things. Quarterly profit drives lots of features delivered poorly instead of a few good features delivered occasionally. Of course the developers get blamed for this when really they are just a product of a broken system. We invent insulting terms for them instead of going after the real problem, Because, of course, we don't have an understanding of materialism in the west.

Oh well.