alt Hacker NewsMost interesting things in software engineering are (laughably) subjective.
Just check out any conversation on dynamic vs static typing, talk to a Rust zealot, or ask a backend engineer if microservices were a mistake.
It's unfortunate, and it makes it hard to have proper discussions on these subjects. It would be worthwhile to figure out how we can have more constructive arguments.
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tekacs • today at 12:59 PM
Thanks very much for saying this!
Frankly, it feels like we should just sidestep arguments entirely and just all contribute our messy data/reports, and then see how we can meld all of it together, to find the best answers for our individual situations.
Probably a good use of frontier AI, melding all of that!
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