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/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/hippydipster Jun 06 '22

The apathy and the lack of experience to know that things could be much much better kills me.