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skills issue

by migueldeicaza 2mo ago

skills issue

mpweiher 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
- migueldeicaza 2mo ago
  Let me rephrase, he is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. In my professional medical opinion, he is at high risk of being replaced by a year old low-end Chinese open source LLM.
migueldeicaza 2mo ago
I joked, but reading the post is even more clear - man this poor dude. He is brute forcing his way through life and broadcasting it on YouTube. Dunno man, Xogot is made up of almost half a million lines of code. Of those 727 files use SwiftUI, and 65 use UIKit, 119 use AppKit (I did not count the overlap, so they are not mutually exclusive). Using GeometryReader makes it clear he is living in the past and the fact that he uses printChanges in this year without mentioning the dedicated SwiftUI instrument show a lack of curiosity on the space.
- miffy900 2mo ago
  So in other words you have no response to any of the arguments in the link? just some silly ad-hominem attack on the author. right.
- vintagedave 2mo ago
  > Using GeometryReader makes it clear he is living in the past He seems to phrase it as though he has to, that he falls back because nothing else works. What would you suggest instead? I'm only lightly familiar with both Cocoa and SwiftUI, but I have heard many nightmare stories about SwiftUI and Swift the language. I'm inclined to take his criticism seriously, and I think there's a big distinction between people who know a platform very deeply -- you are a strong expert almost everywhere you touch :) and it's clear from your comment SwiftUI works for you -- and normal developers who, you know, just want to learn a framework once and use it to get a job done. Living in the past is not necessarily bad; it's a good thing if what worked in the past worked well and still works today.
lysace 2mo ago
Somehow you being the GNOME co-creator made me curious about what the GTK/GIMP creators (Kimball, Mattis) are up to. CockroachDB, it seems. It's weird how it's so easy to miss these connections.
- migueldeicaza 2mo ago
  yeah, I often check on them - love watching what they are up to.

skills issue

mpweiher 2mo ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

migueldeicaza 2mo ago
Let me rephrase, he is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. In my professional medical opinion, he is at high risk of being replaced by a year old low-end Chinese open source LLM.

migueldeicaza 2mo ago

I joked, but reading the post is even more clear - man this poor dude. He is brute forcing his way through life and broadcasting it on YouTube. Dunno man, Xogot is made up of almost half a million lines of code. Of those 727 files use SwiftUI, and 65 use UIKit, 119 use AppKit (I did not count the overlap, so they are not mutually exclusive). Using GeometryReader makes it clear he is living in the past and the fact that he uses printChanges in this year without mentioning the dedicated SwiftUI instrument show a lack of curiosity on the space.

miffy900 2mo ago
So in other words you have no response to any of the arguments in the link? just some silly ad-hominem attack on the author. right.
vintagedave 2mo ago
> Using GeometryReader makes it clear he is living in the past He seems to phrase it as though he has to, that he falls back because nothing else works. What would you suggest instead? I'm only lightly familiar with both Cocoa and SwiftUI, but I have heard many nightmare stories about SwiftUI and Swift the language. I'm inclined to take his criticism seriously, and I think there's a big distinction between people who know a platform very deeply -- you are a strong expert almost everywhere you touch :) and it's clear from your comment SwiftUI works for you -- and normal developers who, you know, just want to learn a framework once and use it to get a job done. Living in the past is not necessarily bad; it's a good thing if what worked in the past worked well and still works today.

lysace 2mo ago

Somehow you being the GNOME co-creator made me curious about what the GTK/GIMP creators (Kimball, Mattis) are up to. CockroachDB, it seems. It's weird how it's so easy to miss these connections.

migueldeicaza 2mo ago
yeah, I often check on them - love watching what they are up to.