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I am getting really bad vibes from this rant. It looks like some wannabee dictator who wants to define what is good/right and then force it upon others. It kind

by genman 3y ago

I am getting really bad vibes from this rant. It looks like some wannabee dictator who wants to define what is good/right and then force it upon others. It kind of correlates with the chosen name - Ansel Adams actively discriminated against photographers with different style than his to the level of not including important photographic works in his photography history book.

antoineMoPa 3y ago
Yeah on one hand, a lot of successful & high quality software projects are the result of one very dedicated brain, so maybe it's a valid tradeoff to have an arrogant dictator. On the other hand, that does not feel so nice as a contribution environment, it creates a software design bottleneck on one person, increasing shipping time and creating a dangerous bus factor. It's not a really scalable way do software design. Overall that attitude is pretty detrimental to community as he basically complains about all previous contributors. Maybe I'd suggest him to: - Work on his attitude, respect other contributors & stop calling them names. - Spend less time developing and more time educating other people who work on the project. - Come up with a set of design principles that the rest of the project can follow. But yeah that's open source, he's free to fork a project. Probably his project will be successful anyway despite the negativity.
- antoineMoPa 3y ago
  This being said, that while loop of death is pretty terrifying indeed.
mardifoufs 3y ago
I thought so too until I looked at the code. It's truly horrible and not in a "clean code absolutist" way, but more in a "digging a giant hole that will make the entire thing untouchable". And going by the stats he provides that's exactly what's going on. FWIW, this article is originally written in french. And while the French version is definitely still abrasive, it sounds more normal. The writing style does not map to English as well for sure.
- internetter 3y ago
  Yeah, I've never seen a codebase more terrifying. It's a wonder that thing manages to work as well as it does
- kramerger 3y ago
  I belive the project was started by someone who was not a programmer. I bet your first project didn't look that great either ;) I am currently reviewing safety critical code written by two very respected companies and occasionally that code looks worse than the snippets author showed.
  - mardifoufs 3y ago
    The problem is that the snippets shown are all from new features and code written in the past 2-3years! I would obviously not judge old code otherwise
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by genman 3y ago

antoineMoPa 3y ago

Yeah on one hand, a lot of successful & high quality software projects are the result of one very dedicated brain, so maybe it's a valid tradeoff to have an arrogant dictator. On the other hand, that does not feel so nice as a contribution environment, it creates a software design bottleneck on one person, increasing shipping time and creating a dangerous bus factor. It's not a really scalable way do software design. Overall that attitude is pretty detrimental to community as he basically complains about all previous contributors. Maybe I'd suggest him to: - Work on his attitude, respect other contributors & stop calling them names. - Spend less time developing and more time educating other people who work on the project. - Come up with a set of design principles that the rest of the project can follow. But yeah that's open source, he's free to fork a project. Probably his project will be successful anyway despite the negativity.

antoineMoPa 3y ago
This being said, that while loop of death is pretty terrifying indeed.

mardifoufs 3y ago

I thought so too until I looked at the code. It's truly horrible and not in a "clean code absolutist" way, but more in a "digging a giant hole that will make the entire thing untouchable". And going by the stats he provides that's exactly what's going on. FWIW, this article is originally written in french. And while the French version is definitely still abrasive, it sounds more normal. The writing style does not map to English as well for sure.

internetter 3y ago
Yeah, I've never seen a codebase more terrifying. It's a wonder that thing manages to work as well as it does
kramerger 3y ago
I belive the project was started by someone who was not a programmer. I bet your first project didn't look that great either ;) I am currently reviewing safety critical code written by two very respected companies and occasionally that code looks worse than the snippets author showed.
- mardifoufs 3y ago
  The problem is that the snippets shown are all from new features and code written in the past 2-3years! I would obviously not judge old code otherwise

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