New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: I love programming but am sick of the software industry
Tell HN: I love programming but am sick of the software industry
9 by overitthrowaway | 7 comments on Hacker News.
I don't imagine this will be a popular view, a lot of you are going to disagree but I just have to get this off my chest. I'm not necessarily looking for advice, just wanting to vent about the industry and hear your thoughts in case there are others out there like me. I have >20 years experience programming, at least 10 of those professionally. I've been programming since I was in grade school. It started with a spark of creativity, I loved making things come to life on the screen. My early years freelancing were full of learning. It was challenging, there were difficult times, but it was almost always interesting. Then I went and got a full-time job. In just a few short years the professional software industry had burnt through just about every drop of passion I had. Learning. I stopped learning at work. Few people are interested in anything that might make the job easier, if it means they have to learn something. Senior engineers especially are paranoid because of bad past experiences and afraid of anything they haven't seen before. Instead we spend months writing overly complicated AbstractBeanFactoryFactories because "that's the industry standard". Because its "easier to hire Java devs". I'm just shocked at how resistant people are to new technologies and ideas that could make things so much easier, especially more senior engineers. Because I love learning, I spend my spare time at home learning about functional programming, new languages, patterns, all sort of things just out of interest. I see how so many things we take as standard in the industry are incredibly slow, overcomplicated and inefficient, but when I try to introduce new ideas or patterns at work they're unfamiliar and therefore "too complex". Code reviews.. (continued in comments below)
9 by overitthrowaway | 7 comments on Hacker News.
I don't imagine this will be a popular view, a lot of you are going to disagree but I just have to get this off my chest. I'm not necessarily looking for advice, just wanting to vent about the industry and hear your thoughts in case there are others out there like me. I have >20 years experience programming, at least 10 of those professionally. I've been programming since I was in grade school. It started with a spark of creativity, I loved making things come to life on the screen. My early years freelancing were full of learning. It was challenging, there were difficult times, but it was almost always interesting. Then I went and got a full-time job. In just a few short years the professional software industry had burnt through just about every drop of passion I had. Learning. I stopped learning at work. Few people are interested in anything that might make the job easier, if it means they have to learn something. Senior engineers especially are paranoid because of bad past experiences and afraid of anything they haven't seen before. Instead we spend months writing overly complicated AbstractBeanFactoryFactories because "that's the industry standard". Because its "easier to hire Java devs". I'm just shocked at how resistant people are to new technologies and ideas that could make things so much easier, especially more senior engineers. Because I love learning, I spend my spare time at home learning about functional programming, new languages, patterns, all sort of things just out of interest. I see how so many things we take as standard in the industry are incredibly slow, overcomplicated and inefficient, but when I try to introduce new ideas or patterns at work they're unfamiliar and therefore "too complex". Code reviews.. (continued in comments below)
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