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Pretty sure I speak for a majority of experienced devs when I say: we don't fear abstractions. We fear abstractions made by others, including our former selves,
by BlargMcLarg 4y ago
Pretty sure I speak for a majority of experienced devs when I say: we don't fear abstractions. We fear abstractions made by others, including our former selves, in the all to often occurring context of "business wants it done by yesterday and we have zero idea what the requirements actually are". All the while we're still figuring things out and having 30 minute discussions on the most miniscule things.
- commandlinefan 4y agoI think you're all being too charitable to OP: "Programming would be easy if it weren't for stuck-up snobby programmers gatekeeping it" is up there with "math would be easy if it didn't have all this notation stuff" or "music would be simple if they didn't insist on writing it on those staves with those circles".
- amadeuspagel 4y ago> "music would be simple if they didn't insist on writing it on those staves with those circles" Yeah. Staves with circles are something optimized for pens, and almost every modern music software uses simpler notation. Does that make music simple? Not quite, but it certainly makes it more accessible.
- jaredcwhite 4y agoIMHO math notation is ugly AF, and music notation was something I hated so much as a teen I almost abandoned my budding professional music career because of it. (Thankfully I found a great niche in early European folk music.) So basically you're right. ;-P
- Tao3300 4y ago> we don't fear abstractions. We fear abstractions made by others, including our former selves that's all the abstractions :-\