[ActorNightly]

The issue is this:

For all the developers out there, there are extremely few who understand CS concepts well enough to build things correctly.

For most of them, their knowledge is in a form of map, where they just remember how to do certain things and when they need to do that, they just follow the template that they remember.

As such, to make use of those developers, you basically need to provide handholding for them as much as possible. This is pretty much the reason for things like OOP, frameworks like React, Type safety, e.t.c. All of these basically restrict what the developer can write in order to match the defined "API" as provided by those language features.

And because things need to move forward, the optimal setup from a business perspective is to adopt a strict framework and make use of the developers, rather than focus on hiring the very few talented developers.

[MeetingsBrowser]

> As such, to make use of those developers, you basically need to provide handholding for them as much as possible. This is pretty much the reason for things like OOP, frameworks like React, Type safety, e.t.c.

It’s rare to see the “C is great, it’s the developers who are the problem” opinion in 2024

[danjl]

I cannot imagine every giving a thumbs-up to hire a programmer who "just follow[s] the template they remember" and doesn't understand CS.