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[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (2 children)

He works on Linux where he controls the whole stack down to the metal and I love that for him, but other people have to call library code, and them debug that if it doesn't work as they thought it would.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Well then obviously if you use libraries, your code is too complicated

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Yep that's why I refuse to use standard libraries. It just makes my code too complicated...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Tell that to my employer

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Right, the amount of times I've had to put breakpoints in Django/DRF code to figure out what's causing that weird undocumented behavior is concerningly large