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like, it’s actively depressing to me that there are people who program who have never looked at code and found it aesthetically pleasing

we really shouldn’t let anyone like that dictate what code is, because it’s clear they don’t understand. I don’t let a finance bro choose what I read (they’d tell me to ingest some airport lounge cult self-help nonsense) or what art hangs on my walls (“I don’t know, what’s expensive?”), why would I let the computer equivalent tell me about beautiful code?

we exist in a world with poetry

where the way words are organized is part of the beauty

how can the same not apply to code?

do you not have eyes?

@zzt@mas.to sorry i keep sending you blog links but this relates to a thing I said a year ago! https://rustredriver.com/blog/20250310-cyberia-source-code-as-narrative.html

the programmers refusal to engage with their identity as a writer renders it impossible to see their own use of language as artistic. It can only exist as assembly-line machine-like production, because all you can do is "make more words" to accomplish any of your goals