@ben_lubar said in The "Good news, everybody: we’re safe from Skynet!" Rant:
@apapadimoulis said in The "Good news, everybody: we’re safe from Skynet!" Rant:
The advancement of the UNIX/Linux mindset of “nothing is intuitive, CLI or GTFO” -- combined with the “modern” development practices -- means that writing code as a job is becoming less and less accessible to people who would otherwise be great software developers, because they simply don’t want to memorize obscure commands and quirks for the shitpile of tools required today.
It's almost as if someone saw that Linux software was hard to use but generally worked without issues once you figure it out, that Windows software was easy to use but third-party software broke if you looked at it wrong, and that websites were written in JavaScript that required more compatibility shims than code but are pretty well sandboxed, and then they took the wrong half of each.
Reminds me of this joke:
Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the
mechanics German, the lovers Italian and it's all organised by the
Swiss. Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the
lover's Swiss, the police German and it's all organised by the Italians.
I was going to paraphrase it with programmers, but it seems i can't be bothered.