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by pdimitar 933 days ago
> I personally don't understand why people aren't willing to learn instead

You misunderstand. As programmers we learn every day, obviously that's one of our strong points.

The real problem is that every single tool wants you to go deep and learn their particular dyslexic mini programming language syntax or advanced configuration options syntax. Why? We have TOML, we have SQL, we have a bunch of pretty proven syntaxes and languages that do the job very well.

A lot of these programmers authoring tools suffer from a severe protagonist syndrome which OK, it's their own personal character development to grapple with, but in the meantime us the working programmers are burning out because everyone and their dog wants us to learn their own brain child.