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Software engineering trends that annoy you
Satan From Wreck-It-Ralph:
Python.
Mr Queeba:
the proliferation of electronjs and every program pretending to be a standalone application but actually being a glorified version of chromium or webkit
computers may be faster but you should still aim to have optimized code damnit
Goth77:
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* App with no help docs implements a help chatbot that is just OpenAI
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oh, this reminded me of one that irks me
when there are help docs but it's some pdf scans of an old book with no actual way of searching through them using ctrl+f, instead you gotta actually use the "table of contents" page to find wtf your looking for and hope it's actually in that section and not some arbitrary info tip in some other completely unrelated section
Ladios:
Dev teams that don't feature people of color or women, particularly when dealing with technology that uses voice or facial recognition. We still have devices that cannot tell when someone besides a white male is trying to use them and we're already a quarter century into the 2000s. It's embarrassing at this point.
MrLoL²:
--- Quote from: Tyler66 on February 27, 2024, 02:13:18 AM ---For decades whatever Apple does no matter how stupid becomes the next trend other tech companies will mindlessly chase.
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sorry that's not software engineering but typical blind Apple hatred, if you're unable to recognize the contributions they've made to the industry for the past decades, then perhaps you need to delve deeper into the subject
Apple does release excellent things every year for the development on their own platforms along with their own API kits which sometimes are very innovative and opens up new use cases, apart from 1. the whole App Store situation where they are reckless and we can all agree on that, 2. the fact they remove support of old software (not hardware) a bit too quickly in some cases