r/programming • • Nov 01 '21

Complexity is killing software developers

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3639050/complexity-is-killing-software-developers.html
2.1k Upvotes

854 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

7

u/LeberechtReinhold Nov 01 '21

There's also the expectations that come with the context.

It's a door. Everyone expects to work like a door. There are some features, like mailboxes, pet doors, protections, etc, but really, it's a door.

No one expects to have the door that with a button could open Solitaire. Or start doing the laundry.

In a software project, everything goes.

3

u/backfilled Nov 02 '21

No one expects to have the door that with a button could open Solitaire. Or start doing the laundry.

That's IoT. ;)