Comment on Video Game Developers Are Leaving The Industry And Doing Something, Anything Else
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Personal opinion: This is actually excellent because we could actually use developers who have worked these jobs and thus are familiar with how they work, and then they can develop actually useful code for small businesses.
For example: restaurants often have the ability to order online, but they have zero rate limiting, so you can end up with 30 different orders made within 30 seconds of each other and all those people will expect their orders ready at the same time and in the meantime you’ve got exactly three cooks and each meal takes at least five to seven minutes to get out. Someone could design a rate limiter, no one has. Because there aren’t developers working those jobs realizing that workers are being worked to the bone because of businesses refusing to add limits to how much demand can come through their door.
Because there aren’t developers working those jobs realizing that workers are being worked to the bone because of businesses refusing to add limits to how much demand can come through their door.
I’m not sure why you believe game developers would be better suited to this than people who actually do business software development. And it’s less about what the developers want to do with software than it is about what the people to are buying the software want to do with that software.
I guess Open Source doesn’t exist?
Restaurant owners don’t care about Open Source.
Restaurant owners would care abiut open source, if the offerings weren’t expensive to implement. See my comment on the same ldvel.
Open Source exists, but it is janky, lacking in features, and literally every single one is used to upsell the expensive proprietary software that has the features.
The paywall in open source business apps is infuriating. I’d rather they just go full commercial.
That’s due to decisions by the money bags (or lack of funds) and not the competence of the engineers.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Yeah… that is nonsense.
Also, the good online ordering software DO provide those features. Restaraunt owners just tend to license the cheapest one (or pay their girlfriend’s kid to write an even cheaper one) for obvious reasons.