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.”

  • @[email protected]
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    176 months ago

    the tests are now larger than the thing itself

    The purpose of the code is to make the tests pass.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech
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      86 months ago

      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.