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by lelanthran 88 days ago
> So far what I am learning (from watching all of this) is that our constant claims that quality and security matter seem to not be true on average.

Only for the non-pro users. After all, those users were happy to use excel to write the programs.

What we're seeing now is that more and more developers find they are happy with even less determinism than the Excel process.

Maybe they're right; maybe software doesn't need any coherence, stability, security or even correctness. Maybe the class of software they produce doesn't need those things.

I, unfortunately, am unable to adopt this view.

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I still use excel to write programs. I use officescript and power query. I shy away from via but have also used it.. I’m not sure what your point is. The people stopping citizens’ development could ease off the job security lines and the deferral to lockdown