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>they are "opinionated" which usually means it's their way or the highway. That's what opinionated means, yes.

• eviks 3y ago
  Not really, that's just one of the opinions, another could be to have opinionated defaults with an option to change anything, so highway isn't the only alternative
  • jakear 3y ago
    Except "opinionated defaults with an option to change anything" is called "configurable", which is the antithesis of "opinionated".
    • eviks 3y ago
      no, configurable only captures the second part, there are plenty of projects that are configurable, but have bad defaults, leaving everything to be set up properly by every single user instead of doing tha config upfront (and expressing an opinion re. how it should be configured) For example - being able to change an encryption protocol is "configurable" - Setting the default to be unencrypted so that the user chooses it is "unopinionated defaults". - Setting the most modern encryption protocol by default is "opinionated defaults"
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      • jakear 3y ago
        All defaults are opinionated defaults. The fact that you consider a particular default "bad" supports that claim more than anything. To your point, setting the default to be unencrypted reflects the opinion "this layer of the stack shouldn't be responsible for handling encryption unless the user has no other choice".