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Midnight Spire Games3 years ago(+1)
This is supposed to be a bad thing.. why are you accepting this, instead of improving? You may call it technology intelligence, but really it is human stupidity. At what point do you stop pulling code you yourself will never check? Have you heard of the recent colors.js case? Will you also pull in a library to add two numbers? Where do you draw the line?

A ludicrous slippery slope, particularly given that the original statement said little more than "other people might have made things that you can use."  They can draw the line wherever they damn well please.

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mid3 years ago

Slippery slope arguments are fallacious only when given without evidence.

People do draw lines, but their lines only ever appear as they age and stop being purely hedonistic. This “convenience” movement, on the other hand, is driven only by hedonists, and so doesn’t draw any lines, which is my entire problem with it. Each new generation pushes the line further towards progressively pathetic, petty behaviour before normalizing it. My evidence is all of history from when science became people’s religion.

Before talking about convenience, think about whether it’s actually justified, and what you’re losing because of it. Programmers are short-sighted individuals, so it’s no surprise they don’t think to do so.

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Midnight Spire Games3 years ago (1 edit)
Before talking about convenience, think about whether it’s actually justified, and what you’re losing because of it. 

The high-handed moralizing does not interest me, but this line is valid, and is really the only thing you needed to say in the first place.  Yes, all software development is about tradeoffs.  In this case, weighing the balance between the control, comprehension, and self-reliance of implementing something yourself, and the speed and convenience of using off-the-shelf parts.  Of course, the exact ratio one prefers for one's own projects is neither a measure of character nor the remit of other developers.

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