[minderasure]

>t feels problematic to me that you are saying to someone that they "need to stay far, far away" from some aspect of computing. It's a kind of gatekeeping. Sure, an outfit like NASA needs to make sure that they don't have amateurs writing their systems software. But in the industry more broadly, people have to be given permission to pursue whatever interests them. It's important, for diversity and the invention of new applications, that "differently able" coders aren't told, by intimidating stereotypical computer science types, that they don't have the aptitude to architect a useful system, or that it's "a rule" that people with their skills will just create problems.

I really needed to hear this thanks.

[SamReidHughes]

Calling an idea problematic is a tell that he's not really concerned by matters like whether it's correct or not.

Web servers and clients, for example, are a case where I've seen bad architecting cause months of damage. An Emacs function hook or advice system, likewise, requires care in terms of when the hook is called, and what the rules for their scoping are. It's a bad software architect that thinks they can just slap callbacks on something.