Re:Ask HN: Have you ever inherited a codebase nobody on the ...
by andrewf on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @11:16PM
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Is it useful to calibrate the software scale in a way that concludes the majority of codebases are "awful" ?
What are we usefully communicating with the word, if 90% of codebases qualify?
Maybe software development is hard, sometimes unpleasant enough, to justify the crazy salaries, and the endless complaining about every codebase more than 2 years old is not quite justified..
As a collective group, software devs are really prone to self-flagellating while they go about delivering billions of dollars in value.
What are we usefully communicating with the word, if 90% of codebases qualify?
Maybe software development is hard, sometimes unpleasant enough, to justify the crazy salaries, and the endless complaining about every codebase more than 2 years old is not quite justified..
As a collective group, software devs are really prone to self-flagellating while they go about delivering billions of dollars in value.