Is a CI/CD pipeline not a build system?

(this isn’t a “gotcha”, I genuinely may have misunderstood the post)

Counterpoint: watching little green checkmarks appear when my PR passes a pipeline step gives me dopamine

“Don’t make me tap the sign”

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-somewhat

It matters if you develop compilers 🤷,

Otherwise? Readability trumps the minute performance gain almost every time (and that’s assuming your compiler won’t automatically do branchless substitutions for performance reasons anyway which it probably will)