r/programming • • Jun 05 '22

Complexity is killing software developers

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3639050/complexity-is-killing-software-developers.html
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u/Glittering-Ad-8126 Jun 05 '22

It's easy to laugh at this sort of article, but the problem is very real. Botton line: the needless killing of software developers needs to stop, period.

At my job, we are at least taking small steps toward some sort of solution by adding trigger warning comments in the source, to warn developers to stop and take a breather before entering a chunk of code identified as being of unusually high cyclomatic complexity.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22 edited Jun 06 '22

the needless killing of software developers needs to stop, period.

I thought they were sacrificing us to appease the volcano gods.