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by overgard 1710 days ago
I feel for the author, but he keeps talking about "love" and "passion". Perspective is needed. It's a way to run some code. It's alright to be excited by what you work on but it's just a mechanical thing. Don't wrap your self identity into it.

If 80% of your engineers are leaving its just a bad workplace. You don't have to apologize for leaving.
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fosk 1710 days ago
I mean the "wheel" is also really a weird shaped object yet it advanced humanity.

The impact of what anybody is building expands beyond the technology itself to all the potential use cases that this new thing enables. It doesn't have a depth of 1. It has a depth of 100.

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overgard 1709 days ago
Well, if you think a web assembly runtime is the same thing as the wheel then I'm probably wrong. But I'm going to venture a guess that the web assembly runtime isn't /quite/ that important.
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fosk 1709 days ago
Reality is that nobody knows what is the long lasting impact of web assembly in our industry in the years (or decades) to come, unless somebody can predict the future. As such, if somebody is passionate about it and gives all their heart and mind to it, I see where they are coming from and I respect their commitment.

To imply that "It is just XYZ" in dismissive tone, well that is quite rude and disrespectful at this point in time.

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