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> In most professional development contexts your puritan approach is simply unjustified. You’re obviously feeling very smug now, but that feeling is not justified. I note that you say “in all my repos”. What is the context in which these repositories exist? Are they your hobby projects and not of any real importance? Do you have literally anyone that can call you out for the wasted effort of reimplementing a web server in assembly because you don’t trust dependencies? I hope that you’re making your own artisanal silicon from sand you dug yourself from your family farm. Haven’t you heard about all those Intel / AMD backdoors? Sheesh.

EDIT: you’re an iOS developer. Apples and oranges. Please don’t stand on top of the mountain of iOS’s fat standard library and act like it’s a design choice that you made.

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ahem, yeah...

[EDIT] Actually, no. Unlike most Internet trolls, I don't get off on the misfortune of others. I -literally-, was not posting it to be smug. I was simply sharing my approach, which is hard work, but also one I do for a reason.

In fact, most of the grief I get from folks, is smugness, and derision. A lot of that "Old man is caveman" stuff; just like what you wrote. I've been in a "professional development context" since 1986 or so, so there's a vanishingly small chance that I may actually be aware of the ins and outs of shipping software.

I was simply mentioning my own personal approach -and I have done a lot of Web stuff, over the years-, along with a personal pet peeve, about how people tend to be quite smug to me, because of my approach.

You have delivered an insult, where one was not needed. It was unkind, unsought, undeserved, and unnecessary.

Always glad to be of service.

BTW. It would take anyone, literally, 1 minute to find all my repos.




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