Oleg Andreev

When you develop some interesting software, you care to make architecture simple, boring and flexible as much as possible. When you think hard about user interaction or work around some weird system integration, the code should get out of the way . Whatever language you choose, you try to stick to some limited set of features and use them predictably and consistently. Ninja tricks are interesting on their own, but better not get mixed with an actual product.

As the complexity and amount of stuff to be designed and improved grows, you are becoming more conservative about any language or technology you use. All the sudden, discussions about C++ template complexities, braces styles etc. look completely strange and irrelevant.

Your code is so simple, you wonder why you should write it at all. Most of the typing is spent on defining objects, giving names and connecting things together. Every interesting algorithm is carefully packaged out of the evolving structure and is rarely touched again.

File system tree does not feel expressive enough. You need some sort of rectangles on the screen to lay out the components and hide some parts within the others for goodness sake.

You become even more productive if some of those rectangles provide immediate feedback, e.g. user interface elements in the Interface Builder.

The future of software development is not the language or syntax, but the interactive tools with instant feedback and sophisticated data organization.