My issue isn’t any particular language but the advocates of various languages treating their language as the best hammer for every nail.

Different user here.

My only criteria for a backend language is it tells me something went wrong and where. Hence my distaste for JS.

The biggest thing he got wrong is the assumption that it’s good programmers writing libraries.

Many organizations vendor packages in the repo for a number of different reasons and languages. Not just for node.

Human made changes is likely not what caused this image to occur.

111 files with that kind of change count is most likely a dependency update. But could also be that somebody screwed up a merge step somewhere.

None of those things are required but they sure do help.

As a developer, the baby is how I see developers, too.

No, you didn’t.

This is a hot take if I’ve ever seen one. I may disagree with this particular action but supporting companies that make games I want to play and are demonstrably fun is never morally wrong.

The world is more complex than that.

I’ve had questions like your 3rd bullet point in relation to why somebody’s friend is having trouble with connecting a headset to a TV.

No idea. I don’t know what kind of headset or what kind of TV. They are all different Grandma.

As a senior engineer recently turned manager I hear this type of mentality from most of my junior all the way up to senior devs.

The only thing I’d suggest to you is spend some time digging into the tools you’re building outside of the project you’re working on. Just to get a general understanding of how the pieces fit together. Definitely do it during work hours, though. I’m in no way suggesting outside of work, here. Once you’ve spent enough time digging, you’ll surprise yourself in how effective you get at answering questions.

Fiddle was found in a thrift store. Couldn’t afford the bongos.

I’ve never seen a problem with asking people to code in a live session. It’s about the problems they are asked to solve. Leetcode style problems are generally unrealistic and have little to do with the skills that are actually needed.

If the problems were more focused on the day to day type of work, nobody would complain. “solve x problem without the industry standard library that solves that problem already” is just testing the ability to quickly reinvent wheels.

I see nothing wrong, here.

My furry ass isn’t sysadmin certified and I sit it on the switch without a wristband, keyboard, and laptop daily.

A program that works right but doesn’t solve the problem is also not very useful.

It’s been my experience that the .NET developer will miss the actual statement and take it as an assault on .NET being the best solution for every use case.

I think Python is easy to learn but difficult to get past the basics. I’m also not convinced that getting past the basics is even worth it in three long run. I say this as a person who has used all Python at work for roughly 70 percent of the last 15 years. My current position is moving to Rust and my last 2 positions were moving to Go. Everybody was happier.

This. C# has been losing momentum for years but some people just won’t see it. I think Microsoft trying to move 365 of of it is just another big flag that devs need to start looking elsewhere.

Microsoft has been pretty open that they intend to move to Rust. They are currently re-building the Windows API in Rust as well. I do expect they will try to push .NET in that world which will be a bummer.

Why is it Valves responsibility to provide alternative install methods? If you genuinely believe it isn’t providing value just don’t use Steam to buy games if you don’t want to install using it.

It’s that unproductive direction content. It doesn’t. Some people just want to hate things.