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I will categorize this as a pattern I've seen which leads to stagnation, or is at least aiming for it. Usually these are built on one or more assumption which d
by the__alchemist 6mo ago
I will categorize this as a pattern I've seen which leads to stagnation, or is at least aiming for it. Usually these are built on one or more assumption which doesn't hold. The flow of this pattern:
- Problem exists
- Proposals of solutions, (varying quality), or not
- "You can't just solve this. It's complicated! This problem must exist". (The post I'm replying to
- Problem gets solved, hopefully.
Anecdotes I'm choosing based on proximity to this particular problem: uv and cargo. uv because people said the same thing about python packaging, and cargo because its adjacent to C and C++ in terms of being a low-level compiled language used for systems programming, embedded/bare-metal etc.
The world is rich in complexity, subtlety, and exceptions to categorization. I don't think this should block us from solving problems.
- bluGill 6mo agoI didn't say the problem couldn't be solved. I said the problem can't be solved by one person. There is a difference. (maybe it can be solved by one person over a few decades)
- tekne 6mo agoI mean -- if I'm going to join a team to solve the hard 20%, I'd like to see the idea validated against the easy 80% first. If it's really bad, at least the easy 20%.
- randerson_112 6mo agoThis is true. There is no way I could solve a problem of this scale by myself. That is why this is an open source project and open to everyone to make changes on. There is still much more to improve, this is only day 1 of release to the public.
- froh 6mo agosure about that? your initial comment above focuses on the difficulty of the task, I didn't see mention of the need for collaboration to solve it. maybe you had that in mind? the comment doesn't spell it out though...