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Congratulations to the Mozilla and Rust teams! Accounts like this one really help people who advocate investing in and building new tools to help against the h

Congratulations to the Mozilla and Rust teams! Accounts like this one really help people who advocate investing in and building new tools to help against the heavy-handed application of phrases like "a bad workman always blames his tools" [0][1]. [0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_bad_workman_always_blames_his_tools https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_bad_workman_always_blames_h... [1] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/a_bad_workman_always_blames_his_tools https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/a_bad_workman_a... Edit: formatting and typo

Analemma_ 9y ago
I hate that phrase and its reflexive usage so much. Yes, a bad workman blames his tools, but so does a good workman using lousy tools.
- chowells 9y ago
  You can respond with "that's because a good workman doesn't use poor tools." It nicely suggests that maybe it's the programmer's responsibility to advocate for something better.
  - nitrogen 9y ago
    When I was a kid I used to pride myself on how many things I could take apart and reassemble with just a butter knife. But that was only because I didn't have access to real screwdrivers. Likewise with software, each improved tool I learn (or new but worse tool I learn to avoid) makes me appreciate how much time I could have been wasting by using inferior tools/practices/languages.
Manishearth 9y ago
See also: https://www.schneems.com/2016/08/16/sharp-tools.html https://www.schneems.com/2016/08/16/sharp-tools.html