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by astatine 1886 days ago
> How many people intend to make slow, outdated, insecure software? The point is that some authors may claim simplicity, some may claim performance, others more security and so on. It is rare to have all adjectives thrown in - and easy to discard when you see them.

>because by now we’re primed to ignore those claims. Unfortunately, we don't always. If we were ignoring them all, then we wouldn't care. It is that we can't help read and interpret them and have our expectations set up; hence the disappointment when it turned out to be just words.