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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust by tensor on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @05:01PM (#22241509)
Most development jobs on products that matter involve working on large established code bases. Many people get satisfaction from knowing that their work matters to end users, even if it's not writing new things in the new shiny language or framework. Referring to these people as "janitors" is pretty damn demeaning, and says more about you than the actual job. Rewrites are rarely the right call, and doing simply to entertain developers is definitely not the right call.
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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust by heinrich5991 on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @05:56PM (#22242030)
>Referring to these people as "janitors" is pretty damn demeaning,

"Referring to the term of "janitors" as demeaning is pretty demeaning and says more about you than your judgement of the parent."

I don't like this rhetoric device you just used.

Also, I think that janitors do important work as well.

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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust by hu3 on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @06:24PM (#22242272)
Let's not fool ourselves.

The demeaning of janitors was introduced by GP by describing it as something they would rather not do.

No mental gymnastics required.

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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust by cma on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @07:30PM (#22242775)
He said he felt like a janitor, next guy said he demeaned others as janitors, and now you are saying he demeaned janitors. There is a level of gymnastics going on.
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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust by hu3 on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @07:48PM (#22242920)
First paragraph:

> The common factor in most of my decisions to look for a new job has been realizing that I feel like a very highly compensated janitor instead of a developer.

So for that person, feeling like a janitor is incentive for seeking a new job. It's that simple really.

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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust by CDSlice on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @08:00PM (#22242994)
That doesn't mean he is demeaning janitors, just that he doesn't want to be one. There are loads of reasons to not want to be a "code janitor" besides looking down at janitors.
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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust by rswail on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @05:18AM (#22245524)
I'm not a gymnast, but comparing people comparing their work to janitors and calling it gymnastics demeans gymnasts.

/s

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