The Death of Utilitarian Programming
Utilitarian coding is defined as follows: The code you write should be *directly* useful or serve the interest of at least one actual human being. It might appear somewhat abstract or vague, so examples might help. For example, I don't consider frameworks as utilitarian code. What you create are like the "frames" of a picture box, someone else (the user) will take it and draw the actual picture. Though you did help with part of the process, it's indirect at best. You're part of the supply chain here, not part of the team. A clever and witty bash script running on a unix server somewhere is also not utilitarian coding, no human ever directly benefited from it. Libraries can be somewhat utilitarian, at least more than frameworks. At least they provide some reusable functionality to the user out of the box like logging, scanning a barcode, fetching data from a URL,
Why it failed
Utilitarian coding is defined as follows: The code you write should be *directly* useful or serve the interest of at least one actual human being. It might appear somewhat abstract or vague, so examples might help. For example, I don't consider frameworks as utilitarian code
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- pyeri
- Ended
- 2025
- Source
- hackernews