Re:I don't want to do front-end anymore
by mumblemumble on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @02:01PM
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No, I don't. And the specific practices at this company would be unpalatable to almost anyone. Package managers for dependency management, for example, were banned, because they made it too easy for the dependency list to grow in an uncontrolled manner.
There was a lot of homegrown software where others would use a library. That was deliberate. If you need five features, but choose an off-the-shelf package with 5,000 features, pretty soon you'll find that the list of features you're using has grown to 50, then 500, and so on, even if you don't actually need any of it. If a toy's in the box, the kids will play with it.
Maybe one thing to try is to focus on imposing constraints, and making people live within them. RAM, # of CPU cores, whatever. Software is like a gas. It will naturally expand to fill all available space.
There was a lot of homegrown software where others would use a library. That was deliberate. If you need five features, but choose an off-the-shelf package with 5,000 features, pretty soon you'll find that the list of features you're using has grown to 50, then 500, and so on, even if you don't actually need any of it. If a toy's in the box, the kids will play with it.
Maybe one thing to try is to focus on imposing constraints, and making people live within them. RAM, # of CPU cores, whatever. Software is like a gas. It will naturally expand to fill all available space.