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So, I totally agree with you on the tone of the GP, and that workarounds are worthwhile to share, but I feel like they have a point. I feel the problem is more
by mseebach 9y ago
So, I totally agree with you on the tone of the GP, and that workarounds are worthwhile to share, but I feel like they have a point.
I feel the problem is more pronounced in the Javascript/webdev community (caveat: I'm recently dabbling in web front end development after a good number of years in Java-land) - the willingness to throw a poorly understood workaround or npm-incantation out there ("it usually works if I.."), rather than trying to actually get at the root of the problem is frustrating. I don't just want to make it work, I want to understand why it didn't before. It seems, from still shallow observation, that the community (such as a singular community exists) has an ethos of doing whatever to make it work and moving on.
Sometimes the root of the issue is a fundamental limitation that you need to work around, and workarounds are definitely useful in those cases, but they are definitely frustrating when they aren't accompanied by reasonably precise diagnosis of the problem they are working around.