Artisans can make objects out of raw material, but they can also take apart objects to reclaim raw material. Software engineering tends to only ever do the former, because traditional toolchains are a one-way street from source code to assembly code to object files to programs.
That article rings very differently to me because of the tooling I've developed. With the ability to break apart programs into object files and reusing them to make new programs, I can do the latter. In a sense, using both pristine source code and second-hand binary code to make programs is as artisanal as software development can get.
That article rings very differently to me because of the tooling I've developed. With the ability to break apart programs into object files and reusing them to make new programs, I can do the latter. In a sense, using both pristine source code and second-hand binary code to make programs is as artisanal as software development can get.