Generality creep

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2019-04-02 01:22, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> This brings us to Right Work.

I'm the first to say that I'm all for improving the code base. I really 
hate how difficult it can be to convince management that a code base 
need to be improved instead of working on a feature. But, to be blunt, 
if you get what you want and everyone is doing Right Work as you 
describe it, there won't be any progress. No bugs fixed or no new 
features. I don't know how often you expect this Great Work to occur, 
which might mean progress. Unfortunately the source code is not the 
product, it's the application, the tool, the library or whatever it 
might be.

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/Jacob Carlborg