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Convenience is the mother of most bad decisions. Sometimes convenience is a protective blanket masking gross incompetence. Many programmers perceive programmi
by austincheney 8y ago
Convenience is the mother of most bad decisions. Sometimes convenience is a protective blanket masking gross incompetence. Many programmers perceive programming as plugging lego blocks together because dicking around with tooling and configurations because writing original software is a great inconvenience, even when it takes dramatically less time.
- yoz-y 8y agoWithout focus on convenience a lot of people would be simply singled out from using tools many take for granted. To counteract your argument, a popular sentiment seems to be that many JavaScript programmers spend too much time writing original software rather than trying to understand and configure the existing ones... because it's too inconvenient.
- austincheney 8y ago> many JavaScript programmers spend too much time writing original software As a full time JavaScript developer for the past 11 years I completely disagree. JavaScript developers tend to be absolutely mortified to write any amount of original code. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invented_here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invented_here It is so bad that I just keep my open source contributions to myself and was even berated by a peer once for not using an specific code editor that featured use of my software.