The “industry” is a bunch of individuals who individually may or may not learn from the experience of others and themselves. And there are a lot more inexperienced developers than experienced. So on average I would say that yes the “industry” is learning but the average skill of developers might not be that high (yet).
Does the software industry learn?
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Re: Does the software industry learn?
#102Part of me says "of course we learn, look at how many bad practices are at least significantly less common than they were in the olden days". It's quite rare you come across a decently run tech company or team that doesn't use version control, or makes changes live in production without a testing environment, or doesn't use automated tests at all, or doesn't have a deploy process at all beyond 'use FTP'. 10-20 years…
> 10-20 years ago that wasn't really the case
To state the obvious, 10 years ago was 2012. Absolutely all of the things you list were standard practice. 20 years ago was 2002, also same thing (no, git didn't invent version control).
30 years ago I was using version control at my first job, it was expected practice. As was having test coverage. None of these things are new.
Deployment was different, granted. We didn't "deploy to production", we shipped a box of floppies to users.