alt Hacker NewsI think Casey is currently the most informed person to make a series of books or articles summarizing the history of SW Engineering, all the lessons learned and forgotten, and all the good stuff that was published and still hasn't gained traction in the practice
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I feel like the comments that are giving you pushback haven't actually listened to Casey before. I agree with you, while opinionated his perspective is very pragmatic and misunderstood. He's done such a great job giving his experience out to the broader world too.
The trouble is, his knowledge covers just a slice of it. He won't talk about stuff like functional programming for instance
I'd put Kevlin Henney up there with him. His talk on 1968 alone is pretty amazing
He's entertaining and well spoken. Love it. Not sure the book medium would be the best avenue. My own sweet spot is presentations, live interviews and meetings. I can't write for sh*t, even if I tried. I know.
Possibly good at starting such a series, then kinda fizzle out.
Ehh I love Casey and have learned a ton by watching how he thinks about things in his handmade hero series, but he is fairly narrow minded in his views of dev. Not that theres anything wrong with that, for the kinds of dev he does his approach is very good. But its not generalizable.
You think there aren't other people equally or more qualified? I mean Casey may be the most visible person with those qualifications - but lack of visibility doesn't imply lack of competence, plenty of brilliant people work in the background..