So been coming back to the programming world slowly, and discovering what I have been missing: Updating my knowledge of new techniques, new tools, new IDEs, new testing methods ,etc.
One thing that I have noticed looking at code around for the past few years,programmers do not know how to program any more: The time where complexity (O(n)), clean code, commented code, documented code,and beautiful code matter seems to be gone to no return.
I am seeing disaster programming in mainstream applications, but it works, it just does. It can be faster, cleaner and better, but people nowadays just don’t care. They want code spurted out as soon as possible, so they can release it to gain money, fame, grade, and recognition.
Programmers spurt more than a 1000 lines of code a day now some reaching 2000+, which 10 years ago was seen as something amazing, and only a genius can do that. I can average like 200 lines of code on a good day, and that’s damn slow to today’s standards. I know my 200 lines are a much better quality than those 1000 lines spurts, and I am really usually proud of those 200 lines; the problem is, no body cares any more!
For the industry I am just a damn slow programmer, and time is money. Efficient code is not needed, computers are damn powerful now that makes my way of thinking obsolete.
In other word, crappy code is the standard today and it doesn’t really matter.Its so damn frustrating…