A call for indie software development
Years of open soruce software development, aimed at perfecting the engineering craft and providing alternative and resources for new developers to learn, though sucessfull mission, have failed to provide side effects that some of us hoped for. The hope was that the open software would enable to the many to express the creativity, and start creating new qualities of software, exploring new territories, and moving the experience of working on building software, from craft to something more closely related to an art.
If we observe the similar process, as happening in music, in the last century, is exactly that by providing tools for creating music available to many - it became possible for many to create new qualities, regardless of their skillset, as long as they can formulate a long-lasting “art” aspect of it. A lot of indie music today is aimed at creating something “new” rather than creating somehting “perfect”. Even though a lot of this would end up on the dumpster, the long-term effect is explosion of the field it that more and more of “new terittories” are being explored, and every once a while a flags have been raised. This makes all of our lives richer and helps us advance, which was the meaning of it all.
Naturally, a call for a similar initiative in software is needed - a call for creating a software aimed at creating something “new” - rather than creating something “better”, “cheaper” - a call for creating something with art-like qualities to it , with the sense of individual expression and exploration.
… to be continued