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by Semiapies 6161 days ago
Let's be blunt: Sturgeon's Law applies. Many coders are lazy and half-assed. They take little pride in their work.

This is why you see so many little aborted projects where someone lost interest after the first weekend of work. This is why you see defensive coders complaining about how people expect their "active" project to ever update again. For many of them, there's not much interest in offering a useful tool or collaborating to create better software; they just want the egoboo of saying they made a "project" out of some slapped-together code that never really needed to be in a public repository.