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> I want to go even further than this. I want to say its bad engineering to even like a technology or tool. This assertion is pure nonsense. To really believe
by rualca 5y ago
> I want to go even further than this. I want to say its bad engineering to even like a technology or tool.
This assertion is pure nonsense. To really believe in that, first you need to somehow believe that hard technical requirements like availability of technical features is something that does not exist.
Afterwards, it requires you to believe that different levels of proficiency with a tool has absolutely no impact on productivity.
I mean, what does the author think that "favourite" means in this context?
Even though it's important to review technical choices, let's not fool ourselves into believing that all tools are equivalent and that different levels of mastery and experience have zero impact on performance and turnaround time.
- resonious 5y agoI agree with your reaction. I also think it's rather unnatural to "not like" any of the tools you use in your day job. Humans are emotional beings, and so I'm going to have an emotional response when I'm forced to read a cryptic C++ compiler error. Those emotions drive me to "like" tools that give me nicer compile errors. Sure, we can exert effort to suppress emotions, but I think there are better emotions to suppress than the feeling of enjoying a nice programming language or framework.