Jason GormanWe spend roughly 10x as much time reading code as we do writing it. A tool or technique that makes you twice as "productive" at writing code *at best* makes you 5% more productive over all. Making your code easier to understand will have 10x the impact. But that doesn't sell tools or put developers out of work, so you won't be reading about it in Forbes.
Thomas Depierre@jasongorman I may have been writing about this stuff a bit lately... https://hachyderm.io/@Di4na/110431524694102577
Thomas Depierre (@[email protected])
I keep having to explain to people that building powerful developer tooling (from programming languages to ide plugins) is mainly hampered by the broken economics of the field. So I wrote down a summary of these economics from my pov, hoping it helps inform the discussion and spurn some actions. Let me know how wrong I am ;) This is not exactly about #opensource, but it is adjacent to it. https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/economics-developer-tools