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> There's no pride, no joy, just productivity. This is exactly what bothers me about the present moment. Not that the pride of craftsmanship is everything, but
by myblake 1y ago
> There's no pride, no joy, just productivity.
This is exactly what bothers me about the present moment. Not that the pride of craftsmanship is everything, but dialing it down to zero with extreme pressure to stay that way is a bit sad.
But we’ve clearly gone through this with other mediums before, perhaps someday people will appreciate hand written code the way we appreciate hand carved wood. Or perhaps we were all wasting time in this weird middle ground in the march of progress. I guess we’ll find out in 5-15 years.
- tcldr 1y agoI think the audience who can appreciate handcrafted code will be vastly smaller than the audience who appreciates hand carved wood.