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No one gives a sh*t about what materials are used to construct the turbine of your airplane - until it crashes specifically because of this material. Then and o
by valenterry 6y ago
No one gives a sh*t about what materials are used to construct the turbine of your airplane - until it crashes specifically because of this material. Then and only then will anyone care.
But does it mean the material otherwise doesn't matter? Obviously not, it still matters a lot.
Then again, asking others to use a language generally without context, that's annoying.
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- hnlmorg 6y agoAt the same time nobody needs to hear in every topic about home gadgets that they should have been built from $MATERIAL because it's what aeroplanes use. <1% of software is life and death (or even mission critical like a space probe). Most of the time people are writing gadgets. Some of the time people are writing complex business critical code. But almost never will someone be writing code where the decision between Rust or C++ would cost a company millions, let alone put someone's life at risk. Don't get me wrong, I agree it's important to pick the right language for the job. But the amount of astroturfing that happens with regards to language preferences is simply ridiculous. It's like the emacs vs vi arguments of old that people used to mock UNIX grey beards over.
- FpUser 6y ago>"No one gives a sh*t about what materials are used to construct the turbine of your airplane" In case of programming the material is rather people who designed and wrote the software. Good programmers will do decent job disregarding of the language used (assuming language is suitable for domain) and shitty ones will produce clusterfuck regardless.
- arwhatever 6y agoMore subtly, people will be one order removed from the design decision if the turbine material simply increases the maintenance costs of the aircraft, but the problem will still be there!