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A comment on Ask HN: Why does software development take so long?.

Re:Ask HN: Why does software development take so long? by dave_sid on Sunday June 06, 2021 @08:38PM (#27417748)
Because everyone’s waiting for all the npm packages to finish downloading.
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Re:Ask HN: Why does software development take so long? by notrly1337 on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @01:40AM (#27444589)
This. Aside from identifying specs and implementing them correctly.

The development toolchain becomes inherently slow and things like CI/CD are often brittle and not implemented until their returns have severely diminished.

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