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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
MaddieM4@raphus.social wrote:
If I say, without a little bit of leading the witness: "I think software should be finished, most of the time. I think a plan for the ending should be in mind from the start." That gets a lot of people's hackles up, as if I just said all machines should be perpetual motion. If we try to make the kind of software we're used to, then yes, completion is something we know is difficult to impossible in that world.
If your goals for software are a bit different:
1. Small (both in scope and implementation),
2. Aggressively interoperable with other programs,
3. At peace with being irrelevant someday,... then it's totally possible to complete software. The ecosystem is never complete, but this piece can be, because it's not trying to itself be an ecosystem with decades of updates in its future.