Ask HN: Do Americans write better software than the rest of the world?

Re:Ask HN: Do Americans write better software than the rest ... by rsynnott on Sunday June 04, 2023 @02:16PM (#36187995)

… Your evidence for this is one tool from Microsoft which you were able to get working, vs one tool from a university which you were not? I’m really not sure how you can read anything at all into that set of facts.

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Re:Ask HN: Do Americans write better software than the rest ... by behnamoh on Sunday June 04, 2023 @02:18PM (#36188018)

Like I said, this is anecdotal evidence and I'm wondering if there's a more general pattern that others have noticed.

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Re:Ask HN: Do Americans write better software than the rest ... by rsynnott on Sunday June 04, 2023 @02:20PM (#36188031)

I mean, I’m not sure it’s even anecdotal evidence, any more than it would be anecdotal evidence that people who live wherever you live are bad at using software libraries.

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Re:Ask HN: Do Americans write better software than the rest ... by behnamoh on Sunday June 04, 2023 @02:30PM (#36188148)

> evidence that people who live wherever you live are bad at using software libraries.

If you don't have anything to add to the conversation, please stop harassing people online. I have 15 years of programming experience and I don't need to prove to you that I __can__ use libraries!

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Re:Ask HN: Do Americans write better software than the rest ... by dermesser on Sunday June 04, 2023 @02:41PM (#36188244)

Yet it is you who first made a sweeping generalization across continents based on what sounded like your inability to use one tool vs another.

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Re:Ask HN: Do Americans write better software than the rest ... by behnamoh on Sunday June 04, 2023 @03:45PM (#36188870)

The post is literally a "Ask HN" question. There was no claim.

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Re:Ask HN: Do Americans write better software than the rest ... by ksaj on Sunday June 04, 2023 @05:34PM (#36189799)

I'm not taking sides on this, but I wanted to point out that you do make this claim: "Do Americans (or more generally, programmers in the states) write better software because they're more closely in touch with the tech industry?"

Are Americans more closely in touch with the tech industry? I don't know what this is based on, but I'd like to see the metric compared to other countries, such as Japan.

I can't tell, because the grammar is sufficiently vague, if your claim is that American software is better, or that Americans are more in touch with the tech industry, but it surely seems like one or the other.

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Re:Ask HN: Do Americans write better software than the rest ... by rsynnott on Sunday June 04, 2023 @02:45PM (#36188281)

I mean, quite frankly I don’t care whether you can or not. That was hardly the point; I was trying to show what a bizarre leap the initial claim was.

Based on your process, I would now like to claim this as anecdotal evidence that people whose experience of programming, in years, is a non-prime number are bad at arguing on internet forums.

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Re:Ask HN: Do Americans write better software than the rest ... by chimpoftheages on Sunday June 04, 2023 @02:28PM (#36188129)

The EPFL and ETH are the two main technical schools in Switzerland which has a population of 9 million. Going by population stats this puts Switzerland next to New Jersey.

The pattern I've noticed is that all software in the US failed after Bell collapsed and the collective unconscious moved software innovation to Europe.

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