Despite the obvious levity, this is actually serious. It was made by why the lucky stiff, a pretty prominent member of Ruby community, back in the day. This, however, was part of his mysterious burnout manifesto, for lack of better term. He really really bloody needed a break.
“programming is rather thankless. u see your works become replaced by superior ones in a year. unable to run at all in a few more.”
50,000? thems rookie numbers.
the tests are now larger than the thing itself
The purpose of the code is to make the tests pass.
The purpose of code is to solve a problem but don’t tell that to the newbies or they reduce the PHP codebase you spend full time managing to 10% that in Rust and take your job.
Where does maintaining a 25MB perl script fall into.
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