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by interactivecode 1202 days ago
Thinking we need to shame our colleagues more is a really bad take. You can like your obscure programming language for all sorts of reasons, but if they go around shaming people I'm not surprised people would rather use a friendlier language.
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Well, what other way to influence behavior do we have?

If a dependency update breaks my code, it reduces my opinion of that dependency. But if it's the least-worse option, and it's free, I can't do much other than think negative thoughts.