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  • Static_Rocket@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I don’t know man, I’ve always liked the idea of a project outliving me. Though for the sanity of future engineers I hope that is not the case. Today’s solutions are usually just tomorrow’s problems.

    • nxdefiant@startrek.websiteEnglish
      21·
      9 months ago

      On a long enough timeline, all things end, and tech has hyper accelerated timelines.

      I was once interviewed by a guy who asked for my biggest failure, which was basically “favorite open source project didn’t work out”. He let me know he worked on an early competitor of the X windowing system and really believed in it. And we laughed about that. (He hired me).

      So yeah, I kinda agree with this job hopper guy on everything but legacy, but only because we really don’t get to have a say on what our code ends up meaning to anyone. The sands of time are nothing compared to the brutality of tech stack churn.