Ask HN: What is the single top-priority software engineering problem?
Development environments. The amount of time and hassle I've seen lost to getting a working development environment up and running is incredible.<p>Every time I talk to someone who's learning to program I tell them: "Setting up your development environment will be a nightmare. I have been doing this for twenty years and it's STILL a nightmare for me every time I do it. You are not alone."<p>Docker is reasonably good here... except you have to install Docker, and learn to use Docker Compose, and learn enough of the abstractions that you can fix it when something breaks.<p><a href="https://glitch.com/" rel="nofollow">https://glitch.com/</a> is by far the best step forward I've seen on this problem, but it's relatively limited in terms of what you can accomplish with it.