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by dguaraglia 1980 days ago
Underrated comment. The more I think about it, negging is almost a defining characteristics of the profession, isn’t it? C programmers complain about languages like D or Rust as fancypants languages that just add syntactic sugar. Vim users shame VSCode users ‘because who cares about nice features anyway’. People who insist in using Mutt and Pine to read their mail because ‘pretty GUIs are for pansies’, command line vs. GUI, Linux vs. Windows (and conversely, Windows vs. Linux), IRC vs. Slack and a million other examples.

We are a bitter bunch, LOL