+1, (1) (2) and (3) are very real problems in industrial software development.
I've been reading a lot how Twitter transitioned from an RoR monolith ("monorail") to SOA when they got big enough, it's a rough journey but I suspect many companies have to take it once they evolve from iterative prototyping/experimentation to correctness at scale.
I've also realized writing good, maintainable code can be done in any language, it's just that some languages (e.g. Go) make it much harder to write unmaintainable code for many of the reasons you've cited above. "Debugging my own undisciplined habits" really hit it on the head.
Yeah, if you ever get a chance to build something for production in Haskell / Scala / OCaml you'll realize how little even Go (which is better than Python and Ruby!) does for you.
The funny thing is, I believe (from real-world startup building experience) that Haskell has allowed me to iterate / prototype my products faster than I ever would have with Python and Erlang (my old go-to tools).
Also, with Haskell, there's no late-night and weekend fires to put out :) Which makes me more productive and generally happier.
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I've been reading a lot how Twitter transitioned from an RoR monolith ("monorail") to SOA when they got big enough, it's a rough journey but I suspect many companies have to take it once they evolve from iterative prototyping/experimentation to correctness at scale.
I've also realized writing good, maintainable code can be done in any language, it's just that some languages (e.g. Go) make it much harder to write unmaintainable code for many of the reasons you've cited above. "Debugging my own undisciplined habits" really hit it on the head.