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I would rather be remembered as a bad artist than a good programmer Takes a rare person to say this, made me smile :)
by justaguyhere 6y ago
I would rather be remembered as a bad artist than a good programmer
Takes a rare person to say this, made me smile :)
- raverbashing 6y agoSounds like a bit of Italian culture leaking into that phrase But don't worry Antirez, Redis is far from a bad work of art, quite the contrary.
- ilaksh 6y agoPersonally I think it's mainly the result of having people constantly being hypercritical of your code. And I think he's proven himself to be a superior programmer. In that in almost every category of engineering skill and knowledge, he is better than 90% of the people criticizing him. If he didn't start out that way, over the years his knowledge and skills grew to make it so. But also maybe it reflects a bit that there is always some new "best practice" or something that some months ago no one heard about, but now many people are unfortunately using the adoption of as a proxy for programming skill because they are unwilling or unable to actually judge something or someone on actual merit.
- tedk-42 6y agoWhen I read that line my heart broke a little. I think he's done a great job with Redis. It goes to show sometimes that you need to let go of the thing you created for the good of the community. If I were in his position, I would have made the same move