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by sorentwo 13 days ago
As a library maintainer, skill and taste are almost equally important. If I can’t recognize inefficiencies, difficult to maintain code, or generally unpleasant code smells, then people lose trust in my libraries/products and it’s no better off than some recently generated slop.

Years of production experience, wisdom, and using something in anger matters for both skill and taste.