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When I see "Manifesto" I think "young, full of energy and dumb about how the world works". Manifestos are declarations of a conceptual bulldozer. Why the drama?
by bsenftner 6y ago
When I see "Manifesto" I think "young, full of energy and dumb about how the world works". Manifestos are declarations of a conceptual bulldozer. Why the drama? Just do what you want without the theatrics, or the declaration that "you're doing it differently" - who cares!
- danjac 6y agoI'd understand if these generalizations came from young and inexperienced developers still figuring stuff out, but you also see them from older developers - they might still irrationally hate on, say, PHP or Java based on their experience with these languages a decade ago, without recognizing that a) PHP and Java and their communities/ecosystems changed and improved since then and b) the problems may have resulted from misuse or lack of experience with the tools at the time.
- bsenftner 6y agoLanguages are just tools. To "hate on" this or that method of solving problems is just immature. To avoid a technology because it is a bad tool is fine, but to trot out manifesto declarations is following some drama script that is unnecessary.