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- Jan 5, 2015
Something that I've noticed is that nowadays there is an obsession of rewriting stuff from zero instead of maintaining existing solutions. We all know that maintaining software is not fun at all but... Nobody seems to care about writing good software and instead the latest <insert new buzzword software> pops out and the cycle repeats over and over again: this is true for Linux userland programs, modern Windows, even frameworks in general.
It's a control fantasy where the lead developer can't find a single thing that isn't a non-solution for a project they do not own and refuse to accept its completeness, and then gets told that's all they propose and will be ignored because they aren't actually fixing jack shit. Control freaks can't read the room and will "do their own thing" (badly) chasing after their own tail and biting it until infection.
I do not envy the world of software development, at all, for this fact alone.