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Another guy blaming a programming language because a third party independent company dont check out every single piece of line for malicious code. Kids these da

Another guy blaming a programming language because a third party independent company dont check out every single piece of line for malicious code. Kids these days think injecting 400 dependency libraries is a better idea than writing their own code. P.S Always remember, it's your responsibility to check out what code library you adding to your project.

cnorthwood 8y ago
sorry if it came across as blaming, I was trying to establish the structural issues with the ecosystem and reflect on ways we can improve on it. The classic "reflect, iterate & improve" cycle. Thanks for the feedback that that message was lost, I'll try better next time.
- craftoman 8y ago
  Two reasons. Either you clickbaiting with some catchy titles or you really believe it's reasonable next time someone push malicious code to Nuget I will start writing an article with a title "Why C# sucks..."
  - cnorthwood 8y ago
    If "clickbait" is writing enticing headlines, sure, I'm proud to be "guilty" of that, but the usual definition of clickbait is if the article contains no substance. I hoped that timeline and reflections would add value though. If you want to write a blog post called "Why C# sucks" if you feel the language and ecosystem specifically enables that go ahead. I don't really understand your hostility here, and I'm sorry if you feel I wasted your time with the summary. I'll choose not to engage further with you at this point as I'm not finding your feedback constructive.
    - zapzupnz 8y ago
      It seems reasonably constructive to me. If I were to simplify what they're saying, with a nicer tone, it'd be "if you mean what you say, say what you mean". I like to think of academic journal articles in that regard: the title neatly summarises the abstract (which itself summarises the article), so there's as little ambiguity as possible. I have no opinion on the article either way, might just be something to sit at the back of one's head for next time. I get the feeling HN has two crowds: those who prefer newspaper-style articles and those who prefer academic journal-style articles. Difficult to find the happy medium (sic).

cnorthwood 8y ago

sorry if it came across as blaming, I was trying to establish the structural issues with the ecosystem and reflect on ways we can improve on it. The classic "reflect, iterate & improve" cycle. Thanks for the feedback that that message was lost, I'll try better next time.

craftoman 8y ago
Two reasons. Either you clickbaiting with some catchy titles or you really believe it's reasonable next time someone push malicious code to Nuget I will start writing an article with a title "Why C# sucks..."
- cnorthwood 8y ago
  If "clickbait" is writing enticing headlines, sure, I'm proud to be "guilty" of that, but the usual definition of clickbait is if the article contains no substance. I hoped that timeline and reflections would add value though. If you want to write a blog post called "Why C# sucks" if you feel the language and ecosystem specifically enables that go ahead. I don't really understand your hostility here, and I'm sorry if you feel I wasted your time with the summary. I'll choose not to engage further with you at this point as I'm not finding your feedback constructive.
  - zapzupnz 8y ago
    It seems reasonably constructive to me. If I were to simplify what they're saying, with a nicer tone, it'd be "if you mean what you say, say what you mean". I like to think of academic journal articles in that regard: the title neatly summarises the abstract (which itself summarises the article), so there's as little ambiguity as possible. I have no opinion on the article either way, might just be something to sit at the back of one's head for next time. I get the feeling HN has two crowds: those who prefer newspaper-style articles and those who prefer academic journal-style articles. Difficult to find the happy medium (sic).