Oh my fucking god.

How can you, after 2 decades as a developer, still produce code to this very day that has that many warnings and suggestions that Visual Studio lights up like a bloody pinball machine from all the squiggly lines!?!

Take your craft seriously or find something else to do!

Programming is not a protected profession. We need labour laws and license exams and shit.

@hashedram as well as healthy biases

It keeps amazing me how low quality work is "accepted" in our industry. If a chef keeps making crappy food, people stop coming to the restaurant and everybody knows. If a carpenter can't get a wall or a floor straight they will either have to pick up their game or repair their shit free of charge.

Developers on the other hand keep their jobs year after year, delivering shitty code way over budget and time and still cash in a decent salary. I see them in every single place I work, the ones that actually ADD to the total workload instead of lowering it.

I don't cover up why we have to completely rewrite something less than a year after it was "finished", but a few weeks later the responsible person will be put in charge of implementing a system on a million dollar budget.

@devdiddydog the issue is that often times shitty work can be hidden from non Devs.

@hashedram please no. Just look at how many graduated computer scientists can't write a decent program. It's just going to add bureaucracy and cost us money without solving the problem.

@rEaL-jAsEs not in my ducking country it isn’t.

@rEaL-jAsEs laughs in India

I share your frustration, but it would be so difficult to enforce some sort of universal standards like there are for civil engineering, architecture, etc where there are physical constants that are unarguable. I don’t have experience with life/safety critical software though, so there may be more standards in that line of development than I realize.

@fiftyhz I don’t want a universal standard. I’m happy if even my city or state has some sort of imperfect license so dumbfucks who can’t speak or read English and can’t put two logical statements together stay out of the profession.