[janice1999]

> Because companies/users don’t pay for “great code”

Unless you work in an industry with standards, like medical or automotive. Setting ISO compliance aside, you could also work for a company which values long term maintainability, uptime etc. I'm glad I do. Not everyone is stuck writing disposable web apps.

[ekjhgkejhgk]

Or space, or defense, or some corners of finance and insurance.

> Not everyone is stuck writing disposable web apps.

Exactly. What I've noticed is that the a lot of the conversations on HNs is web devs talking to engineers and one side understands boths sides, and other one doesn't.

[aurareturn]

"Does it work?" covers what you said.