"Gambiarra" is a Brazilian Portuguese word that it's hard to explain, because it's a way of thinking embodied into things, as a way of overcome problems without care about the elegance of the solution; at the same time, with a lot of creativity.
There is an alternative to a Object Oriented Programming (POO in portuguese - Programação Orientada a Objetos) which is POG - Programação Orientada a Gambiarra.
That's more like my way of programming.
We are real life gnomes. We tinker with stuff and do things other people think impossible.
@ranoya AIUI "debrouillard" has a similar meaning in French.
The nearest equivalent in English might be "MacGyver" used as a verb, after the resourceful 1980s TV character.
@keyboardpipette never heard "desenrascar" before, but maybe.
Well, "gambiarra" is só deep in our culture that we have doctoral thesis about it:
@ranoya outstanding!
Desenrascar does seems to carry the same meaning:
https://dicionario.priberam.org/desenrascar
I know the word gambiarra but it has a different meaning in Portugal. Torchlight of I am not mistaken. Pretty cool how words and meanings evolve.
@kitchen @TicklishHoneyBee ohh it's very different. We have those here. There are sayings like "do repairs while the bus is in moviment" and things like that.
But "Gambiarra" ia a choice. A creative choice, and almost a lifestyle: it's a mindset that the lack of tools, materials, money, knowledge and other resources will not prevent us from solving the problem.
@Helena_NWE It depends on the language and the project, as also how much 'gambiarra' oriented programming is possible. The 'gambiarra' goes from applying procedural programming inside native oop like java and processing, to forcing oop in javascript through deep copy of arrays, and not by classes and instances...
But sure there is a lot of decent programmers that do oop the right way.
A like using javascript because it practically made for a good 'gambiarra'.
@ranoya @getajobmike reminds me of one job where I came back from lunch to see that someone had written on a whiteboard:
_W_hat
_E_ver it
_T_akes
(I'm fairly certain the writer knew that "whatever" is one word.)
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