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Is it controversial to say that those with low TODOs are pretty clearly the cleanest packages I enjoy working with most? (Postgres, Rust, Django, VueJS, maybe P

• mceachen 5y ago
  Use and semantics of TODOs are decidedly not consistent across these projects. Just because you (and I) see correlation with our expected biases shouldn't be construed as proof: merely interesting chart wiggles. I think the shape (monotonic increase or sawtooth) can be used to see how a project handles either missing features of technical debt.
  • hinkley 5y ago
    But if the semantics speak to project philosophy differences that result in a worse or better experience, then it is important that they don't have the same semantics.
• actinium226 5y ago
  Well, is the converse true? Are the packages with high TODOs the dirtiest packages that you least enjoy working with?
  • hinkley 5y ago
    "I'll do it later" is one of the more challenging personality faults to deal with in coworkers. There are very few people you can trust to make that statement, while most of the rest behave as if you should trust them as well, even though everybody knows they won't in fact do that later. Not only will they not do that later, but at some point they will compare their productivity to someone who ended up having to 'do that later' for them, causing their other work to suffer.