Re:Ask HN: Tutorials Written with Heavy Dependencies
by giraffe_lady on Friday December 30, 2022 @03:47AM
(#34183223)
idk man I already got a couple hobbies and one serious domain of expertise I'm just tryna get work done and get paid here. might be a shame to you but I'm so grateful I don't have to dig through a compiler manual or whatever to do my job.
Re:Ask HN: Tutorials Written with Heavy Dependencies
by readonlybarbie on Friday December 30, 2022 @01:05PM
(#34187803)
Agreed, with the only caveat being, there is a chance that the current favorable market conditions for programmers disappears.
There might come a day where companies believe that the value of slapping a few potentially buggy libraries together is not worth $xxx,xxx per year. I for one kind of hope that companies return to buying/contracting well-defined finish products with small external studios rather than throwing money at W2 developers like us. I think the software quality will be higher, and the risk of our jobs being outsourced lower, wherher rightfully so or not.
It is true that a lot of platform specific nastiness and complicated math occurs in some of these libraries which is not necessary for a user to learn. But for those desiring to learn "what's happening under the hood", the code should not make an effort to needlessly obscure this from them by way of complicated syntax, poor interface design, academic naming practices, and big unwieldy spaghetti classes.