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“Just” is a four letter word and a trap our industry repeatedly falls into. https://sgringwe.com/2019/10/10/Please-just-stop-saying-just https://sgringwe.com/2
by janalsncm 2mo ago
“Just” is a four letter word and a trap our industry repeatedly falls into.
https://sgringwe.com/2019/10/10/Please-just-stop-saying-just https://sgringwe.com/2019/10/10/Please-just-stop-saying-just
- hamburglar 2mo agoIf all you want to do is host repositories, “just” is the appropriate word here. For lone wolf work, all I care about is having a remote that mirrors all the changes and branches I create locally. It’s just redundancy. A git bare repo and SSH are all that’s needed. I don’t do pull requests to myself, and I don’t need a bug tracker or CI.
- nine_k 2mo agoBut sometimes it's applied properly! https://github.com/casey/just https://github.com/casey/just
- zombot 2mo agoIs that a just cause?
- chrysoprace 2mo agoI hadn't read this article until now, but I started catching myself using the word at work a few years ago and I've actively been trying to avoid using it for the reasons laid out in this post.
- gosub100 2mo agoI didn't check if this was mentioned in the article but I've heard it described as a "lullaby word". I think that is very apt, and I have stopped using it whenever I can.
- sincerely 2mo agoedit: totally wrong
- ysavir 2mo agoI think they mean the "just" in "Do you just want to host repositories?", implying that it's never "just" hosting repositories, and the needs will continue to grow beyond what the simple solution offers.
- doctorpangloss 2mo agoi used to feel the same way, but with coding agents, the Justers are surely having the last laugh