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sixstringtheory
Building up to HelloWorldEnterpriseEdition, I see.
whatshisface
Nobody thinks of it this way, but the ultra abstraction stuff in enterprise software is actually proof that the previous generation of programmers did as much boredom engineering as the present one.
oa335
Nicely said; "boredom engineering" encapsulates so much of what I've seen at large enterprises.
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OnlyMortal
That’d require a REST interface.
pessimizer
SOAP
faebi
No corporate software is complete without an integrated email client, including inbound email.
metadat
It's missing some ROT13 action and additional GoF design patterns like Visitor.

What else can reasonably be added to this elaborate, simultaneously horrifying and beautiful hood ornament?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns

OnlyMortal
Visitor is a very useful pattern in truth. Handy with client/server, deserialisation and in C++, boost variant as that serialises too.
copperx
Sure, and yet it is interesting how the satire would be funnier with the visitor pattern than with an obscure pattern nobody uses.
lokedhs
Visitor only exists to deal with limitations in the language. Every use of Visitor I've seen had been an absolute nightmare to maintain. I'd rather just use reflection than implement something using Visitor.

And I think that's what made the comment so funny.

OnlyMortal
Amateur! Needs to use setjmp and an intentional bug.
em-bee
patience, leave some stuff for later, otherwise the experiment will end soon
newaccount2021
You are my coworkers, except they aren't doing it ironically
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jeffhwang
This is the fun stuff I come to HN for!
bmitc
Interesting turn of events. From the title alone, I thought it was going to be commentary on the nature of software engineering and management (or mis-management) of complexity.
drekipus
Sounds like a regular day at work
rprenger
It should output the result of a GPT-stlye transformer fine-tuned on data set of 1,000,000 instances of "Hello World"
TechBro8615
Yeah this hits a little too close to home.

I think you might be missing an opportunity for some additional pomposity in the commit messages.

cyclotron3k
Unfortunately they have stopped this endeavour due to "personal reasons", but they did say they will return next year.
patrick451
Clearly, this needs a logging a framework. Bonus points if the logger can be configured to POST to an endpoint...
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