📚 node [[20210516170826 characteristics_of_good_software_design]]

This is the billion dollar question! What makes good software? This could be answered in two ways, and I don't think these are two entirely unrelated questions:

1. What is well-engineered software?

  1. Software maintainability Every piece of software should require little effort to maintain.

2. What is good consumer software?

This is a big question. What do consumers want? Is Emacsgood consumer software? Or do general consumers prefer things like Windows

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