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There's a strong culture of "leave things better than you found them". When a user gets confused by the tooling/language, it's not the user's fault. If you got
by estebank 1y ago
There's a strong culture of "leave things better than you found them". When a user gets confused by the tooling/language, it's not the user's fault. If you got confused, chances are that others will too, so fixing/improving things when we encounter them has unbounded benefit. Second best time to plant a tree being today and all that.
One benefit of this is that if someone tries and bounces, when they try again a year later their experience might be improved enough that they don't bounce again. For a while I was of the thought that the best piece of advice I could give someone wanting to learn Rust was "wait 6 months" :)
- jvanderbot 1y agoThis is such a great attitude. I know LLMs are becoming the new Godwin's law, but I really wish this attitude was pervasive in LLM-based tooling. "If it's not working you're prompting wrong" is all we have. But I guess "wait 6 months" still applies (except then you're "NGMI").
- vascocosta 1y agoI very much agree with this and that's one of the reasons I keep using Zig as it is now. I try to provide feedback on what isn't very obvious to me.