Simon 𐕣he 🪨 Johnson

This already happens in enterprise code bases with dummies running the show and juniors coding. Every primitive is actually a god object that can work at any level of the software stack.

don’t even try to learn what a software dependency

Everyone at my company keeps using the term “dependency hell” when referring to literally dependency management and order of operations with a modern package manager like NPM that tracks versions and dependencies.

They’ve literally never experienced working with dynamically linked libraries and they think it’s so hard because they have to understand a tree that exists in data form (e.g. package-lock.json) and can be easily visualized vs a tangled file system and LD_LIBRARY_PATH or Windows standard search order / HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\KnownDLLs.

It’s pathetic.

Margaret Hamilton’s first job out of undergrad was working for Lorenz. She was incredibly accomplished with several stints in top labs, by the time of Apollo. It’s not like opportunities for trail blazing software fell out of the sky on shlubs who barely passed undergrad data structures and algorithms courses.