| ▲ | bsenftner 12 hours ago | |
I worked as a software engineer for 30 years before being forced to use a database, and that was for a web site. I've been coding actively, daily, since the 70's. Forever we just wrote proprietary files to disk, and that was the norm, for decades. Many a new developer can't even imagine writing their own proprietary file formats, the idea literally scares them. The engineers produced today are a shadow of what they used to be. | ||
| ▲ | anonymars 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Yeah, it scares me because I'm experienced enough to know all the difficulties involved in keeping durable data consistent, correct, and performant | ||
| ▲ | vlapec 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
>The engineers produced today are a shadow of what they used to be. …and it won’t get better anytime soon. | ||
| ▲ | pythonaut_16 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> we just wrote proprietary files to disk That alone is a terrible thing. Open formats are so much more user friendly | ||