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by anyfoo 755 days ago
In my experience, you can do both. I recently made a tool where I had great fun making the internals as “elegant” as possible. What other people perceive though is only the usefulness of the tool.

I would have had significantly less fun with a more pragmatic approach, and maybe the tool would not be as polished as a result.

In German, we say “the journey is the goal”.

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> In German, we say “the journey is the goal”.

Which btw, for the non-German speakers, we do because we have one single word ("Ziel") that means both "destination" and "goal". =)