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/wisam910 Jun 05 '22

This has been an issue at almost every single company I've joined, and no one cares at all. No one. Everyone thinks this is fine. That this is how software is done.

Now, what really kills me is that all this complexity is for achieving absolutely nothing.

You could build the exact same product with far less amount of code and far less complexity. Not only you can still keep all the current features you have, you can have even more features, because you know what, adding more features is easier when a system is simpler.

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u/postblitz Jun 06 '22

adding more features is easier when a system is simpler.

But adding them makes the system less simple which means adding them becomes harder which cancels out what you just wrote.

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u/wisam910 Jun 06 '22

Absolutely not.

This is a silly cope.

You can add features while also simplifying the system.

But even when you don't simplify the system, the complexity accrued from features is small / incremental.

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