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Comment by pmarreck

7 days ago

I guess that since you haven't built the car you're driving, your opinions on it are null and void as well.

Anyone who actually believes that I can't have ANY sound opinion on Zig after 31 projects building with it should get their head examined for brain tumors. I mean, it's not like I have to deal with all the positive and negative effects of things written in it. It's not like I've had to solve problems in it that emerged when the LLM didn't do things correctly (and yes, I can tell when this is so, and not just when things are buggy). And it's not like I don't know (by heart, not by LLM) at least 15 other languages that I can draw on (C, for example, for which I not only got an A in a class at Cornell once, but was in fact the person with the highest score in a class of ~150 people... A perfect score, in fact) to form valid opinions in combination with how I see Zig working.

So please take your baseless skepticism and baseless assumptions and shove them up your ass, dude. I have work to do, and I'm far more capable of it now than I was, thanks to the LLM boost.

Honestly, I wasn't harsh enough... Though I don't think I could write a better post showing how useless your opinion on things actually is than the one you wrote yourself.

And no, I don't think you can have any valuable opinions on Zig since you don't write it. In your analogy you're not even driving the car, but it doesn't surprise me that you can't figure that out.

  • I am absolutely plotting the route and intervening when the car tries to do something stupid. That ends up working out a lot better than actually driving the car because you can focus on the goals, the car often knows better routes that you failed to consider, you can measure the tradeoffs and you can determine the minimum-viable-path to get there, so just fuck right the hell off with this stupid-ass baseless skepticism

    the ones learning how to run the looms safely and productively are going to continue to succeed and scale upwards and outwards while you get paid pennies to use knitting needles on bespoke hand-coded solutions. And at this point, I don't give a damn anymore because you lot deserve your upcoming rot 1000%, especially with a stubborn pissant plebe fucking answer like that. Holy shit. You're literally going to stubborn yourself into poverty just to make a point. Enjoy.