[travisgriggs]

Which idioms? This week’s? Or last week’s? If I’m at guru level and am capable of evolving to whatever next week’s idiom is, can we code together then?

I agree with you in general. But I do find that this litmus test sets up a moving target in some of today’s more trendy/culty language ecosystems.

[nicoburns]

I think it depends: not using specifically env variables for configuration should let be a big deal. But hard coding values rather than using some sort of configuration file is bad practice and could cause issues on a team.