My thoughts
Antirez listing all the ways we are destroying software.
A few that resonate the most with me:
- We are destroying software pushing for rewrites of things that work.
- We are destroying software claiming that code comments are useless.
- We are destroying software mistaking it for a purely engineering discipline.
- We are destroying software by always thinking that the de-facto standard for XYZ is better than what we can do, tailored specifically for our use case.
Read the article: We are destroying software