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Software Disenchantment (tonsky.me)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Recently re-discovered this gem of a blog post, written in 2018 by Nikita Propokov, about his disenchantment with the state of modern software. Do you think it's still relevant today (perhaps more/less so than it was when it was written)?

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[–] PixxlMan 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He's talking about ridiculous programming stacks and bloated tooling and things. Not once does he level any criticisms at higher level languages in general

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

The frameworks and tooling stacks are just even higher level abstractions.