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"Reality Check: You need to ship products fast to even know if they’re worth refining. Wrestling with the borrow checker to produce “perfect” code is just burni
by meristohm 3y ago
"Reality Check: You need to ship products fast to even know if they’re worth refining. Wrestling with the borrow checker to produce “perfect” code is just burning time that could’ve been better spent actually testing your product in the market."
I don't drink the cool-aid that fuels the tone of this article, so I'm not over here nodding along. "Move fast and break things" is careless and harmful. Putting your testing on users rather than doing more of the work yourself feels irresponsible. I don't like that it's done with games (my main point of reference), and would rather wait for the bugs go be ironed out than have a bad time with it. There are zero innovations that we absolutely must have right now. Whatever you're making might not be as important as you think it is.
If we're talking climate change, the actions that carry the most water are to collectively use less stuff and convert less energy; technology is helpful in that, but not essential.
- coldtea 3y ago>Putting your testing on users rather than doing more of the work yourself feels irresponsible. The question is if it's good for business when you're starting out.