[freewilly1040]

This kind of discussion is more relevant to inheriting projects than constructing them from scratch.

To take an example I’ve inherited several Ruby on Rails apps from novices at big cos. The language takes the perspective that everything should be easy, so apps get rickety fast without diligent programmers. Which is a good goal but not something you will always have control over.

[0xbadcafebee]

I think this presumes that working on projects built by novices is something we have to resign ourselves to. We could demand real engineering licenses for software, real apprenticeships, and a common 'zoning code'. But we have to push for it and not accept the status quo.