• Solumbran@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    You are literally the kind of ignorant people I’m talking about.

    It’s like telling a guy who makes wooden jewelry that “dude if u not faster with chainsaw I dunno what to say”, or to someone trying to take down a wall between two rooms that a bulldozer would be faster.

    I still cannot comprehend that some people would be “smart” enough to understand basic programming, but then be absurdly lacking understanding of the matter to end with the conclusion that coding “skill” is about speed.

    I just don’t know how to even make an example that explains how absurd that is. It’s like having a random naked dude in an archery competition screaming that he won because he shot his arrows faster than all the other contestant, even though most of them landed in the crowd.

    I am really at a loss for words for how absurdly stupid that kind of vision of programming and technology is.

    • beeng@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 hours ago

      Truth is everybody isn’t doing archery.

      You’ve been given electricity and you prefer to use hand tools. Yes I get that there is a niche, but to complain about rough edges when cutting down trees cos the chainsaw was too fast, will depend om what you’re making.

      If you’re in a plane or a car, then yes sure. But still, I’d rather my electricity and wrap tests around it and tell it not to use emojis and refine its output then be stuck writing boiler and no autocomplete…

      You’ll find your complaining niche on the internet but the truth is everybody else that is using it just shuts up and gets on with producing value rather than being pedantic on code that will work and probably be read twice maybe 10times max again. Sure it might not be optimized, but who is optimizing first go? What a waste of time.