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by monsieurbanana 2847 days ago
In my experience non-logic bugs vastly outnumber logic ones.

"Modern" dev is not about writing algorithms, it's about sewing together many different frameworks/libraries/technologies.

I'm probably biased as most of my experience is in webdev, but other domains seem to have the same issues (probably not to the same extend).

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Out of curiosity, what are you considering modern?

The trend I see growing is towards microframeworks, smaller libraries, less dependencies (or if you have some, a small opinionated set of them), are more doing it yourself -- I think this phenomena, more simply put and was championed by go -- is to "just write code"

I am enjoying "just writing code" far more than my days as a library and framework glue person, and it is a lot easier to have other devs ramp up, as an added bonus. "Here, read this simple code to understand what's going on and then add your code" versus "here, study these docs, learn this framework, install all these dependencies then learn our coding style within the framework to understand what's going on, then add your code"

Gary Bernhardt kind of captures my sentiment these days with regards to massive libraries and frameworks these days in this thread nicely: https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/1037101314939875328