Re:Dear sir, you have built a compiler (2022)
by rectang on Friday November 22, 2024 @11:40PM
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> even when there are better things that already exist
That's a "big if".
Lots of times what's there is a nightmarish tangle of technical debt left by previous greenfield devs. The dev who gets to maintain and evolve this dreck is the sucker, scapegoated for ever slower development.
Canonical example: on-call AWS engineers working hellish overtime to close tickets on one of AWS's many terribad fragile codebases.
That's a "big if".
Lots of times what's there is a nightmarish tangle of technical debt left by previous greenfield devs. The dev who gets to maintain and evolve this dreck is the sucker, scapegoated for ever slower development.
Canonical example: on-call AWS engineers working hellish overtime to close tickets on one of AWS's many terribad fragile codebases.