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by maxbond
1291 days ago
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Are you telling me I long-windedly went on a tangent? I'm open to this criticism I'm just not entirely sure I'm correctly interpreting you. (It certainly wouldn't be the first time I was told I was unclear or long-winded.) I don't mean to speak out of turn, but just to offer you information, your experience really reminds me of how friends have described ADHD to me. I'm just putting that out there in case it's useful, make as much or as little of it as you care to. |
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I can't speak to how often this happens for people without ADHD, but it is a very common trait for those with ADHD (and describes me rather well on most days).
For what it's worth, my interpretation was that they were criticizing you so much as elaborating/describing/explaining a different perspective on the same phenomenon you described (or at least, a similar phenomenon)... and then that turned into its own tangent. of a tangent of a tangent.
So, bringing these tangents all the way back to the OP: ADHD is hard, communication is hard--especially with people. Communication patterns are context sensitive. Toxic communities are easy, toxic communication patterns are easy, and establishing constructive communication patterns for a broad community of people is hard. Ruby's community tends to be mostly nice, although it's a lot less popular and energetic than it was 12 years ago. Ruby itself is marvelous--haters be damned--even when there's a little truth in the criticism. I think that its positive impact on the industry as a whole is hard to measure (almost every commonly used web framework before Rails, Rails, almost every commonly used web framework before Rails; and the languages like Rust and Elixir are hugely influenced by the idioms, ergonomics, and aesthetics of Ruby, IMO). And adding Data in ruby 3.2 is a great little building block and will probably replace 90% of my Struct usage. And I've been wondering if I should backport it, wait for all of my projects to hit 3.2+--I'm hoping there will be a good implementation in the "backports" gem soon--or just use one of the gems that will create an adapter layer over it (I'm sure one or more of the dry-* gems will be built on it, and I'm using them in a few places anyway).
So, I was going to type a six word reply ("yeah, this is a common ADHD trait.") and this accidentally got blurted out. So yeah. ADHD. ;)