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Anecdotally, I find a lot of people who are eager to talk shit on other's work are not especially strong coders themselves. People who actually know what they'r

• Trufa 4y ago
  Having learnt surfing some months ago, and having been surprised by the amount of aggressiveness/shouting/bad manners in the water, I've also noticed that the ones making the loudest noises are not the best surfers, these just seem to be doing their own thing, the shouty ones are not necessarily the bad surfers, but rarely you'll see the really good ones out there being angry at everyone.
• marginalia_nu 4y ago
  Beginners and low-intermediates tend to be very rules-driven in their thinking about whatever it is they're learning. Statements about programming are universally true or false, and they readily absorb notions from blogs and so on without the experience required for evaluating to which extent what is said is true (and in which contexts they are true). I'll also note a general tendency toward zealotry regarding terms that are value loaded. "Pure", "clean", "functional", "correctness". I'll posit that if in some parallel universe FP was called "beige programming" and "pure functions" had instead been dubbed "moist functions", there wouldn't be half the zealotry in this regard, even though these are properties of the signifier and not the signified.