This can be incredibly frustrating for developers. In my own experience, the person in the worst position is the developer brought in to clean up another developer’s mess. It’s now your responsibility not only to convince management that they need to slow down to give you time to fix things (which will stall sales), but also to architect everything, orchestrate the rollout, and coordinate with sales goals and marketing. Oh, and let’s not forget actually producing the code to resolve the underlying issues. It can, at times, be an insurmountable problem. A developer in that situation has to wear a lot of hats. They need to be:● An advocate to management and by extension the C-suite.● A project manager.● A marketer to understand the features and desired functionality both now and down the road, to make selling the product more simple with defined pipelines and marketable features.● A decision maker, willing to make tough calls with regards to future compatibility of the services, how they interact, and what third-party tools they might need to integrate with to ensure the rectified code will be usable for the foreseeable future.Last but not least, they need to be a good developer to fix the mess. If you employ a developer who can manage all those responsibilities as well as their day job, I guarantee you aren’t paying them enough, or they’re already looking somewhere else.

Building and sharing an app should be as easy as creating and sharing a video.

Sorry you’re surprised. Issues are filed at about a rate of 1 per day against GLib. Merge requests at a rate of about 1 per 2 days. Each issue or merge request takes a minimum of about 30 minutes (across at least 2 people) to analyse, put together a fix, test it, review it, fix it, review it and merge it. I’d estimate the average is closer to 3 hours than 30 minutes. Even at the fastest rate, it would take 3 working months to clear the backlog of ~1000 issues. I get a small proportion of my working time to spend on GLib (not full time).

While Trailblazer offers you abstraction layers for all aspects of Ruby On Rails, it does not missionize you. Wherever you want, you may fall back to the "Rails Way" with fat models, monolithic controllers, global helpers, etc. This is not a bad thing, but allows you to step-wise introduce Trailblazer's encapsulation in your app without having to rewrite it.

While the very same software might be in a PPA and a snap, the fact that the snap is shown in Ubuntu Software is the point I’m making. Many people use that to install software. So making software appear there is beneficial for developers - their software is found, and beneficial for users - they discover new software.

The benefits for developers do reflect on benefits for users, with more software delivered faster and more securely.

We are unapologetic tinkerers who neither invent the wheel, nor are satisfied with the wheels already at our disposal. The best scholarship and the best pedagogy take the best of what already exists and make it better, at least better for the task at hand. We need to embrace this identity as hackers, acknowledge our indebtedness to those who have gone before us, forsake the illusion that we are creating (can create, should create) something wholly original, but also refuse to take for granted the things that have been passed down to us.

I have no familiarity with Svelte internals, so much of your talk about what they would do eludes me. I'm just concerned with developer ergonomics

In general, my focus has shifted from optimization to DX. Partly because Svelte does a lot of the heavy lifting. For things that can be optimized on a need-to basis, I would rarely sacrifice DX.