[happyjack]

I'm not a techie, but I love lurking on this website.

My only comments from someone who found Linux in high school, used to love computers, the old internet, and used to do scientific computing in Fortran and matlab.

I read through some of these posts and feel like I'm on a different planet when it comes to computers. So many packages, podmans, stand ups, etc etc. seems like there's a package, library, git runner whatever for everything. Micro services, web apps, the word app in general. Virtualize everything.

When did software design / engineering change so much? Are things really getting better, or is computing power allowing the industry to duck tape a billion things together instead of writing in low level languages and using standard packages and compilers?

What are recruiters and companies looking for?

[sk11001]

> When did software design / engineering change so much?

We need to do more complex things, and if you want to do these things efficiently without reinventing things from scratch, you need to rely on different tooling and work on various level of abstraction.

> Are things really getting better

No but they aren't getting worse either, they're just different (except for the parts that aren't).

> or is computing power allowing the industry to duck tape a billion things together instead of writing in low level languages and using standard packages and compilers?

Lower level languages aren't better than higher level languages, they serve a different purpose. As a professional, you need to pick the right tools to do your job.

[lurking15]

It's not getting better in my opinion and I resent most of the stuff I come across on HN because it really is crazy and needlessly complex. Never mind the recruitment and rituals employed by companies which is another soul-sucking aspect.

[happyjack]

I honestly resent a lot of the stuff on HN these days. It's become an echo chamber.