- Author
- Dan, publishing as mooreds on Letters To A New Developer
- Published
- 27 January 2020
- Kind
- Short advice letter on a personal blog
- Original
- letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2020/01/27/software-is-about-people-not-code/
- Subject
- Software design
What it is
Dan, who publishes as mooreds, writes advice letters for new developers. This letter describes the author's early focus on code. It says people matter more for a project's success.
What it says
- The author says abandoned codebases showed that people matter more than code for success.
- The letter says a well-built codebase that does the wrong thing is useless.
- The letter says code must solve real-world problems of real people.
What evidence it gives
The letter gives one personal anecdote: some codebases abandoned for lack of a market. It offers no data and no detailed examples.
Interests and limits
The letter rests on one person's experience. The site also promotes a book and a newsletter by the author. The letter takes about a minute to read.