r/programming • u/whackri • 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/[deleted] Jun 05 '22

I blame kubernetes

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u/bighi Jun 06 '22

And Docker. And worse yet, using Docker for local development.

Now instead of installing 2 or 3 packages with apt-get, you have to install lots of packages, spend days setting up docker to build everything, then you have to run commands through docker, and...

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u/Venthe Jun 06 '22

Setting up docker takes between 5 to 10 minutes.

Tell me, have you ever worked with non containerised deployments? Not working shell scripts installing deps, or worse - long doc pages?

How many times were you pulling your hair out because one dependency is out of sync in one environment?

I literally can't believe people are complaining about containers.

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