You're trying to learn how to code because you think being a janitor is a lucerative and rewarding career choice if computers are involved.
I'm learning to code because I believe "museum quality software" might possibly exist and I'm chasing the high of yet another craft that requires very little material investment.
We're not the same.
And before the obvious troll appears:
No, the museum quality code is not in the room with us right now.
@patcharcana What is even your definition of museum quality here out of curiosity.
Like will last for ages and keep being relevant forever so it gets displayed as history? Or so pretty and beautiful it gets shown as art? Something completely different? Multiple choices?
@sudo_EatPant @Doridian @patcharcana
I can’t remember if this exactly the right video, but the original Windows Task Manager (from when Windows was getting better rather than worse) seems to have been an absolute work of art.
Bullet proof. Custom controls that bypass a lot of bloat (which generally would be overkill, but given how important Task Manager was). And a bunch of other fun stuff that just makes it oddly perfect for its niche.
@Doridian That's a moving target but it means something about artistry, something about having an "archival" or "built to last" nature, and something about, for lack of a better term, "Functional Correctness".
This is a question that answering would require my usual full blogpost process to get my head around what I mean in full. Your conversation with Kranston et all that follows is actually a good step in the right direction.
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