Developers can develop leaner applications, but they're usually not incentivized to.
Frankly, I love efficiency too, but I've hard to learn the hard way that what the market wants is features. Or at the very least, the executive team wants that.
Frankly, I love efficiency too, but I've hard to learn the hard way that what the market wants is features. Or at the very least, the executive team wants that.
I'm using the internal Google tools and it's helping me write code much faster too, but it still takes time. I could make the CLI tool I work on faster, but no one cares except the end users, and their minor concerns have no impact on our internal politics.
At the end of the day you have to do what you're paid to do, unfortunately.
Pick any two.