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Let’s face it: Antirez, the genius behind Redis, might be going through a mid-life crisis. After abandoning his incredible project, Redis, he’s now trying to dip his toes back into the same waters, like someone who keeps returning to the same toxic relationship. Even now, he’s written an article about how we're destroying software. Isn't it ironic?
He's not wrong about everything he says—I'll give him that—but let's not forget he's a big part of the problem. He writes about how modern development practices are poisoning the world of software. From bloated tools to nonsense methodologies, the "software industry" has transformed into something barely recognizable. Still, we should ask: did he jump ship too early? Or did he give up because his own creation was being swallowed whole by the very corporate monsters he now criticizes?
You know, Redis was something else—something raw. A project that didn’t have all the unnecessary baggage of modern software. Antirez built it out of passion and sharp intuition. But now? Now he’s seeing the industry for what it really is: a corporate circus. No surprise that he’d want to break free from that. Redis was like his escape plan. But that was then. Now he’s facing the inevitable—falling back into the same trap that he ran from.
Let’s talk about frameworks. Oh boy, don’t get me started. They’re like the shiny toys for corporate monkeys sitting in their drywalled, open-plan hellholes. What are they even for? To bring order? To enforce discipline? Maybe. But in reality, they’re just tools to keep the monkeys occupied, making them feel like they’re doing something valuable while they’re really just lost in a maze of redundant abstractions. Frameworks didn’t revolutionize anything. They just turned the whole software-building process into a corporate routine, creating more noise than actual value.
Languages like Go, which at one point seemed like a miracle, have been completely ruined by corporate interests. It’s been twisted into something unrecognizable, something sterile and controlled. We’ve seen it all before. The hype, the expectations, the false promises. What’s worse? These corporations push these tools to their developers, who lap them up like obedient puppies. No questions asked.
So here we are again, watching software die a slow death. What we need is a shake-up, a true wake-up call. No more relying on over-engineered frameworks and buzzword-loaded jargon. We need a return to simplicity, to passion, to real solutions. But will Antirez’s musings be enough? Probably not. In the end, the corporate machine is too large, too ingrained. Still, at least someone’s calling it out for what it really is.