This is because a lot of software engineers aren't actually engineers. I know it's a controversial opinion to state online, but it's true. Think about how many IT students or professionals complain about taking an ethics class. That would not be tolerated in other engineering fields. Software in general is still in the wild west phase, and it doesn't help that almost every attempt to regulate the field has been a blatantly obvious corporate power grab or an attempt to create a monopoly, which will obviously not go down well.
wdym software engineers aren't actually engineers, do you have any idea how hard it is to use a JavaScript library to make a button do something slightly different than it already does?
This is because a lot of software engineers aren't actually engineers. I know it's a controversial opinion to state online, but it's true. Think about how many IT students or professionals complain about taking an ethics class. That would not be tolerated in other engineering fields. Software in general is still in the wild west phase, and it doesn't help that almost every attempt to regulate the field has been a blatantly obvious corporate power grab or an attempt to create a monopoly, which will obviously not go down well.
wdym software engineers aren't actually engineers, do you have any idea how hard it is to use a JavaScript library to make a button do something slightly different than it already does?
We did at mine, but 90% of the job is jamming arbitrary bits of code together to get something that sorta works maybe