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Software engineering is the only place where 'its too hard' is used as an excuse to not use superior technologies like rust, haskell, or even c++, which actually offer better discipline than many other commonly used languages.

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Right, imagine say a civil engineer building a bridge saying 'I won't bother working out the actual stresses on the trusses, I'll just estimate them from an earlier job' because it's boring--unfortunately much of good engineering is very tedious and boring, the hard slog comes with the territory.

BTW, the reason I said I'd likely not live to see software development become a profession is because the same sentiments as this blog were echoed in this Scientific American article some 27 years ago and precious little has changed for the better since then:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247573088_Software'...

I think the italicized heading on page 87 sums the matter up beautifully.

"Despite 50 years of progress, the software industry remains years — perhaps decades — short of the mature engineering discipline needed to meet the demands of an information-age society"

It's true about the industry, but that is because the industry has grown faster than the profession. There is a group of software engineers who care. They're just completely overshadowed by the mind-boggling amount being produced by university programs and coder bootcamps who don't care.

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