This talk repeatedly put me on the defensive in spite of me wanting to learn from it. He’s against layering sugar on top of a core, but I see that as a big part of what software and computing is. At the core level we’re just shuffling around 1s and 0s. There’s already a huge pile of sugar on top of that.
I didn’t gather that he was against layering sugar on top of a core, but that he believes we’re limited (not necessarily in possibility, but in how much time and effort we have to spend dealing with it) by the crappiness of the core.
“CSS is what happens when a cat hoarder with Schizophrenia tries to make a fucking programming language” ha.
This talk repeatedly put me on the defensive in spite of me wanting to learn from it. He’s against layering sugar on top of a core, but I see that as a big part of what software and computing is. At the core level we’re just shuffling around 1s and 0s. There’s already a huge pile of sugar on top of that.
I didn’t gather that he was against layering sugar on top of a core, but that he believes we’re limited (not necessarily in possibility, but in how much time and effort we have to spend dealing with it) by the crappiness of the core.