Re:The Importance of Humility in Software Development (2020)
by moksly on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @02:54AM
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I have a somewhat funny anecdote on this. One of our sister cities had a tool for handling city-water or something along those lines, that was build in ASP Web-forms.
All the city engineers were perfectly happy with it, but the developers behind it were worried that ASP web forms were becoming obsolete. Not really an illegitimate concern I supposed, but what they did was hire a company to rebuild it in AngularJS.
So now they have a technology nobody else uses around here, while web forms simply turtles on because of how much legacy it has in various places that aren’t upgrading it.
All the city engineers were perfectly happy with it, but the developers behind it were worried that ASP web forms were becoming obsolete. Not really an illegitimate concern I supposed, but what they did was hire a company to rebuild it in AngularJS.
So now they have a technology nobody else uses around here, while web forms simply turtles on because of how much legacy it has in various places that aren’t upgrading it.