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Rude and entitled behavior is of course unacceptable. That said I think the project developers and maintainers often share a large portion of the blame. Most p
by YmiYugy 4y ago
Rude and entitled behavior is of course unacceptable.
That said I think the project developers and maintainers often share a large portion of the blame.
Most projects are very keen on telling you about their amazing new features and the awesome stuff you can build with it. What they don't do is properly document limitations of their software or honest comparisons with competing solutions. Additionally many developers overhype the status of their project. They'll call it production ready, mature, claim it has a vibrant community and ecosystem and so on, when these things really bend the truth.
That builds expectations and running into critical, well known bugs that don't get fixed can be extremely frustrating.
- 13415 4y agoMy solution to this problem is to avoid libraries and projects that have one of those darkmode Web 3.0 scrolling pages as home that tell you in countless ways with lots of graphics why their project is so great. They usually aren't, and they are nearly always unfinished. In contrast, I've never had any problems with libraries whose home page is text only + links generated from Emacs org mode. Good programmers don't waste their time making fancy web pages.