> I'm not convinced maintainers are perceived as valuable.
I'm pretty sure an accountant classifies technical debt control as not being valuable.
"A cost center is a department or function within an organization that does not directly add to profit but still costs the organization money to operate."
Want to stay compliant with privacy laws / norms / standards / file formats in your useful custom software? Gotta pay some technical debt dealing with that new complexity; just so that you can continue to operate at the same provided value.
Necessary, but not valuable.
rant
And then you go and try to get a raise.
/rant
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My cynical side tells me that it is a sound personal strategy to declare that old languages like Java are outdated, and that the only way forward is with the newer shinier languages.
In my experience, accountants want to capitalize software development costs (makes the bottom line look better) but must expense maintenance (i.e., bug-fixing). So that translates to a (slight?) preference for quality software that has fewer bugs.
I'm pretty sure an accountant classifies technical debt control as not being valuable.
"A cost center is a department or function within an organization that does not directly add to profit but still costs the organization money to operate."
Want to stay compliant with privacy laws / norms / standards / file formats in your useful custom software? Gotta pay some technical debt dealing with that new complexity; just so that you can continue to operate at the same provided value.
Necessary, but not valuable.
rant
And then you go and try to get a raise.
/rant
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My cynical side tells me that it is a sound personal strategy to declare that old languages like Java are outdated, and that the only way forward is with the newer shinier languages.
This way you would only get greenfield projects.
I should do that, even though I love Java.