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Programming@programming.devEnglish · 1 year ago

Is software getting worse?

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Is software getting worse?

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Programming@programming.devEnglish · 1 year ago

A rant, with some examples.

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Free software gets a total rewrite by newbies every few years, losing half the features and productivity gains of the previous version. See GNOME, KDE, GIMP, etc.

OpenBSD & FreeBSD are maybe getting better over time, but even that’s arguable.

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