On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 10:08:28AM +0200, ab wrote: > Expect a thousand conflicting opinions. If you're truly interested in > programming, your best bet is to look at as many ideas as possible then > working on your ability to sort the bullshit out.
"opinions" is the right term: subjective personal choices based mostly on personal tastes and context. In my previous email (which was not delivered by gmail yet because suckless mx was offline) I was talking about where you want to draw your "lines". Those "opinions" become bullshits when they increase in a significant way the complexity and number of dependencies of a stack of software components (SDK included): because this metric is mostly absolute, and this is why "suckless" exists. After 3 decades of programing, I am still discovering "bullshits": The last bullshit is python (kind of slowly replacing perl5, and I remember being a python fan boy a decade ago... pepe hands), and the one before was the "javascript web" and I quickly did figure out the c++/java/similar bullshit a long time ago. -- Sylvain
