The post on PMDG's 737 development work reminds me of two things:

1. The quote: "do not let perfection be the enemy of the good"
2. Why you rarely see software developed from Germany

The first is self explanatory and not necessarily a bad thing I suppose. The second refers to the German tendency to generally over engineer everything. By the time they reach their high standard of quality, especially in the area of software development where versions come out frequently (looking at you Asobo) it's already obsolete.

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There is a joke of a German tank commander who was captured and was talking to a GI captor in World War II.

GI: So I heard a German tank could kill 5 American tanks for each German tank
German: No, a German tank could kill 10 American tanks for each German tank.
GI: So how did we capture you then?
German: the Americans always brought 11 tanks for 1 of ours.

(The Sherman tank was in service when there were better options because it was a great tank to mass produce, and it was produced to a huge extent and the Germans couldn't keep up with the American production.)

 

 

No idea what you try to say but you do realize that Asobo is a french company ?

so lets talk about french cars 🤣🤦🏼‍♂️

Have you heard of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP? 

Clearly Hangar Chat material …

Well, the issue aside that German work ethos feels often more beaurecratic than perfectionist to me (I am German), neither Asobo nor PMDG are German. ;)

Mr. Neumann is, but apparently that does not change anything regarding possible MSFS perfectionism ;)

And the one company I fully understand to strive for perfection is PMDG. That's what make them stand out. So if they need one more year, two years ... for the 737, so be it.

To the OP: Lol.

I think that while trying to use a german stereotype you ended up confirming an american one 😂

Jokes aside, there is a big difference between being a perfectionist and giving the idea of being a perfectionist. PMDG goes in this last category. And this is without even considering the fact that we have PMDG official side of things, not Asobos's.

Edited January 18, 20224 yr by Pastaiolo

Yikes....

What does MSFS has to do with Germany? LOL!. Pointless thread indeed

why.

When it comes to flight simulation, and optimized computing / coding, I rather prefer Eastern European / Russian developers... They put out the very best code I've ever used in flight simulation, and an add-on just released for the other platform is yet another proof of that, if we don't count DCS World and IL-2 Great Battles...

Programmers from the former USSR territories, now Eastern Europe countries, as well as from Russia and Ucrania are simply the BEST in effective, exemplary flight simulation.

Edited January 18, 20224 yr by jcomm

Good coders come from many countries as do good software design engineers.  It may well be that the best of these do not have other chances for good work in Eastern countries  and so are able to devote their time to flight simulator modelling.  In the US it could be that good engineers can find work in many areas and less are available to work in this field.  

The above I have written is obviously rubbish because PMDG uses developers from many countries in their team as does xplane.