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by pdimitar 1716 days ago
Oh, I so wish us to have standards! There won't be any of them anytime soon, sadly. Even when you have unquestionable benefits going from a dynamic language to a statically strongly typed one (as was shared by a team moving from JS to Rust in the last few weeks here on HN) people still bikeshed and pick apart any word and sentence to hell and back just so their pet idea and favourite language magically happens to be the end-all be-all of programming.

(Let this not be read as if I am a zealot for static strong languages -- when you have to prototype stuff, the dynamic languages are a god send!)

Truth is, a lot of us the software devs are divas -- and I've been guilty of that in the far past as well, and I am very ashamed remembering every minute of it.

But you can't just pass wisdom and tell the younger devs: "STFU and listen to experience and follow established good practices". We all walk our own road to wisdom and sadly that takes a while and in the meantime we can ruin some businesses. :( And/or the job of the next person after us.