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Why not?
Because for the most part it's approached completely unscientifically - especially in the corporate setting.
What code is "cleaner and more maintainable?" All ~vibes~.
How should we write tests to ensure they're robust and covering all expected functionality? Who cares just get the tool to 90% coverage and ship it.
A carpenter isn't a wood scientist
That's not "computer science", you're talking about programming or software engineering, which are workers building what computer scientists have figured out. There are very few computer scientists. They are basically specialized mathematicians. Think Dijkstra. Google has most of them chained up in a basement somewhere writing sharding algorithms or something. It's confusing because many programmers get CS undergrad degrees, but they are starting to make "software engineering" degrees.
It's true that CS doesn't use the scientific method, but neither do library science, "scientific socialism", etc. Popper isn't the be-all end-all.
Fair enough I had been considering deleting/rewriting my comment for a similar reason. Point still stands if you replace CS for SWE
yeah SWE is not science, we're not discovering anything we're just building
They don't use the scientific method, and they generally don't publish research or collect data.
It's math. You don't really use the scientific method