#+title: 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. [[file:20210516170837-software_maintainability.org][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 [[file:20200709231258-emacs.org][Emacs]] good consumer software?
Or do general consumers prefer things like [[file:20210516171925-windows.org][Windows]]?