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by maramono
3562 days ago
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IMO, first we need to solve the smaller issues, most importantly to have developers start making high-quality software consistently. There is nothing that will get solved with the current "bugs are unavoidable" mentality, which is simply a mediocre and unprofessional attitude. The way I see it, if mediocre developers try to "solve" world issues, the solutions will be mediocre as well, just like their software. More of my thoughts here: http://ortask.com/why-your-mindset-might-be-setting-your-sof... |
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However bug-free software may be prohibitively expensive to create. You would need military-style controls on every line of code, every change. Specifications going to the n-th degree to be ratified and signed off by all of the stakeholders, who need to be highly engaged and quite technical. No vague requirements allowed. If no one makes a mistake in this process then maybe it will be bug free.
Yes bugs really are unavoidable. That will never change because bugs (other than silly errors) are usually an artifact of translation of user requirements, system requirements etc. into a working system.
However I agree it is feeble to use that as an excuse. It's like saying I won't exercise because I can't ever run 100m in 1s, no matter how I hard I train.
Tooling is definitely an issue. I'm reading "You don't know JS" for fun and learning a lot about why JS is a really horrible language to write bug-free code in. If you are stuck with languages like this (and all languages have their respective problems, if not as bad as JS) then it is hard to write bug free software.