within 6 months the anti-clanker opinion has gone from "useless slop machine" to "performance enhancing drug that shrinks your balls"
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@RustyCrab it seems more like a hallucinogen that induces acute megalomania and, with sufficient exposure, crippling brain damage
@RustyCrab though I suppose the actual drug is just dopamine
@deprecated_ii idk man if you're using it responsibly its genuinely just a better way to do things. Im watching my coworkers struggling to meet their deadlines hammering away at a computer for 20 hours a day. I dont need to write my 23,960,213rd proprietary optimized container class and the 2 billionth unit test that hammers on it
For beginners its genuinely a problem though and my thoughts on it cant fit in a post
For beginners its genuinely a problem though and my thoughts on it cant fit in a post
@RustyCrab @deprecated_ii I'm generally not anti-clanker but I do worry about it enabling people to do enterprise-grade code but EVEN HARDER this time
@binkle @deprecated_ii i do exactly the opposite where i avoid dragging in unreal engine size dependencies and then do a few iterations to simplify it. The only exception is unit tests. I make a lot of god damn unit tests
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@RustyCrab @deprecated_ii oh yeah I know it's very possible to not use it that way, but lowest-common-denominator problem: plenty of developers are perfectly happy to make things hell for other developers (see: Unreal Engine)
@binkle @deprecated_ii my 
optimism says if you are being a burden you will probably be removed at some point. We shall see
optimism says if you are being a burden you will probably be removed at some point. We shall see