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Re:Rage Against the God Machine by bitwize on Sunday June 07, 2020 @01:34PM (#23449019)
Yes, I realized a few years ago that humans are not yet ready for computers. They're great inventions, capable of a few fantastic things, but getting them to do much of anything requires something alien to most humans' thinking, and as a result has a lot of unintended consequences. That said -- try Lisp. I find it greatly expands the class of problems solvable by a single programmer. And to the extent possible, rely less on SaaS and trendy frameworks, and more on simple libraries or components you build yourself.
Re:Rage Against the God Machine by IshKebab on Sunday June 07, 2020 @01:46PM (#23449122)
Isn't that widely regarded as being the reason Lisp never caught on. Everyone writes their own standard library so nobody can understand each others' code.
Re:Rage Against the God Machine by bitwize on Sunday June 07, 2020 @02:13PM (#23449318)
Just because it's widely regarded as such doesn't make it true. I find Ruby on Rails code to be more impenetrable than Lisp, and no one can say Rails didn't catch on.