What's somewhat amusing, though, is that there doesn't seem to be a great deal of wholly bespoke software being written in certain industries (games, a lot of the Web stuff). It's pretty rare that a thick monolithic client of any real seriousness is still being produced,
In a way, a lot of folks are just plumbing together little utilities and libraries to do what they could be programming themselves. jQuery, Rails, node.js, redis, sqllite, etc. are the components for larger plumbed systems.
So, with the overwhelming reliance on frameworks and third-party libraries in modern software development, perhaps McIlroy may be shown right yet.
In a way, a lot of folks are just plumbing together little utilities and libraries to do what they could be programming themselves. jQuery, Rails, node.js, redis, sqllite, etc. are the components for larger plumbed systems.
So, with the overwhelming reliance on frameworks and third-party libraries in modern software development, perhaps McIlroy may be shown right yet.