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Modern software development is cancer
Wait. Before you say clickbait, let’s focus on the definition of cancer. It is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. Now, let’s replace diseases and cell growth with words like software and industry.
In the past 15 years or so, ever since the first software bubble was burst and developers realized they needed a new way of making easy money, there’s been an alarming and unchecked trend in the growth of software languages and development disciplines, all designed to support and sustain themselves. A living organism with unprecedented spread. Cancer.
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