Re:Magicimport.py: Python code that fetches its dependencies...
by saagarjha on Saturday October 10, 2020 @05:35AM
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Nope, your comment is poor because it’s off-topic, not critical. You saw the project and launched into a mild rant about “kids these days who use libraries for everything” when on-topic comments would be “I hope nobody actually uses this ;) Although in all seriousness based on my experience this kind of thinking is unironically already present in the software engineering community”. Your original comment fails to tie itself back to the project and it fails to demonstrate that you understood it was not meant for use in production. As such, it deserves as much disdain as a “Mozilla should fire its CEO” comment should get on a post about SpiderMonkey.
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Re:Magicimport.py: Python code that fetches its dependencies...
by Smithalicious on Saturday October 10, 2020 @03:36PM
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It's not at all self-evident that something like this is bad to inexperienced or naive developers, even if the readme has the obligatory "this is just for personal projects, don't use it in production" disclaimer. The comment is perfectly on-topic.
Re:Magicimport.py: Python code that fetches its dependencies...
by saagarjha on Sunday October 11, 2020 @03:33AM
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Honestly, even a “this a bad idea to use in production” would be an on-topic comment, and as I said the comment in and of itself is not poor it is just misplaced and such a lead could help it transition between the two topics. The primary issue is that the comment is not “don’t use this in production”, it’s just straight up “importing all the dependencies is what’s wrong in software today” which is no longer connected to the post.