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Don't disagree. I'm not dismissing the sentiment in general. But these kinds of articles have been posted here hundreds of times over the years, these thoughts
by nineteen999 4y ago
Don't disagree. I'm not dismissing the sentiment in general. But these kinds of articles have been posted here hundreds of times over the years, these thoughts are not new, and the fact that they fail to gain enough effective traction in the real world and are just posted here for brownie points is where it starts getting grating.
For everyone one person who posts one of these, there are 100 people cheering them on, and 10000 developers in the real world who just learnt to deal with POSIX and its warts years ago, just want a paycheck, and will wait until a better API gains traction in the real world before they go asking their employer to bet the farm on it.
- eyelidlessness 4y agoThe thing I’m objecting to is framing the discussion as brownie points. For something or some things this complex, you either can’t or more likely should not proceed without a lot of talk. Here is a great place for productive conversation to start to form consensus. It can’t do that if planning and philosophizing and design and critique of ideas is precluded.