Comment by janalsncm
17 hours ago
“Just” is a four letter word and a trap our industry repeatedly falls into.
https://sgringwe.com/2019/10/10/Please-just-stop-saying-just
17 hours ago
“Just” is a four letter word and a trap our industry repeatedly falls into.
https://sgringwe.com/2019/10/10/Please-just-stop-saying-just
I hadn't read this article until now, but I started catching myself using the word at work a few years ago and I've actively been trying to avoid using it for the reasons laid out in this post.
I didn't check if this was mentioned in the article but I've heard it described as a "lullaby word". I think that is very apt, and I have stopped using it whenever I can.
But sometimes it's applied properly! https://github.com/casey/just
Is that a just cause?
If all you want to do is host repositories, “just” is the appropriate word here. For lone wolf work, all I care about is having a remote that mirrors all the changes and branches I create locally. It’s just redundancy. A git bare repo and SSH are all that’s needed.
I don’t do pull requests to myself, and I don’t need a bug tracker or CI.
edit: totally wrong
I think they mean the "just" in "Do you just want to host repositories?", implying that it's never "just" hosting repositories, and the needs will continue to grow beyond what the simple solution offers.
> the needs will continue to grow beyond what the simple solution offers.
If they do, then migrate to a provider that offers what you need at that time. It's not like adding a new remote is hard.
I must be illiterate. Ofc. Sorry
i used to feel the same way, but with coding agents, the Justers are surely having the last laugh