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A property of footguns is they make sense and are coherent to people who do understand them. To them they are just useful tools (i.e. guns). A gun becomes a fo
by ModernMech 1mo ago
A property of footguns is they make sense and are coherent to people who do understand them. To them they are just useful tools (i.e. guns).
A gun becomes a footgun when you put it in the hands of someone who doesn’t understand how it works and they promptly blow off their foot.
- Daishiman 1mo agoTrue in theory, in practice the quirks of Python can be understood in two days. As a user of both Javascript and Python for 20 years the Javascript quirks have no internal consistent logic that can be easily absorbed.