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by oralty 2635 days ago
I mean, I think that was a bit of a joke. It's ironic that you rail against this dude for "code that's hard to understand" in reply to a long-form prose article about understanding the code and how it got there..

We'll probably have to agree to disagree.. but that blog post doesn't really resonate for me... especially the end where it talks about keep it to your "own language." I've never had patience for identity politics especially in the case of a god-damn programming language.
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JoshTriplett 2635 days ago
> It's ironic that you rail against this dude for "code that's hard to understand"

I'm sure that it was a joke, and that doesn't make it better. I'm not suggesting that this code was hard to understand, and I enjoyed the article. I'm calling out this particular point, and suggesting that even as a joke, mocking "frontend developers" is very much from the same territory that promotes "Real Programming" and mocks people for their choice of programming language or technology.

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oralty 2635 days ago
I mean it is pretty true that most frontend developers do not have the inclination to go trodding into a C++ code base making syscalls without a wrapper. Even taken uncharitably seriously, that is all the comment was insinuating. Everything else is added by you the reader.

And anyway I'm fine with exclusively frontend devs staying out of systems stuff. Anyone that wants to read OS kernel and compiler source code has tons of choices. Most I've talked to find it dry and boring. They don't belong there... that's fine.

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