The gerrymandering actually backfired on them and magnified their loss. Cherry on top really.

I was under the impression I wouldn’t have to defend myself =]

OOP dogma isn’t just bad, it’s actively harmful. OOP leads to unnecessary boilerplate. Any boilerplate that is not absolutely necessary is noise and bad. Full stop.

Private (Getters/setters): Strictly not a necessity in any sense of the word.

Short functions everywhere.

Short files everywhere.

I prefer to see the steps of execution that are actually happening in the real world on hardware. Not an ivory tower of code that happens to execute.

Never understood the idea of, “if it needs to be fast, that part is in a faster language.” Why not just use the faster language? Most of the libraries that have Python wrappers also come with c headers. Sometimes you wind up in the reverse situation where your dependency doesn’t have a Python wrapper and now you’re stuck managing silly boilerplate. Python just feels like an extra thing in the way to wrangle for little gain.

Also, hotspot-only optimization doesn’t seem to have held up in reality, right? We can all agree that software is getting slower every day. The infrastructure is slow.

All feels like cope, through and through.

What bothers me more than the stupid, are the true believers who are otherwise intelligent. I know many of these people. Through some combination of religion/gullibility/stubbornness, they refuse to apply Occam’s Razor to anything that breaks their fragile little world view.

Every cult member explaining why the media is so negative to Trump:

I would most certainly give them a talking to for trying to add constructors, getters, and setters!

Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.

Why is there a Goebbels quote for everything?!

When my house was listed, they freshened up the sky of all things. Every picture had the same clouds regardless of direction.

Or Trump’s first round of tax cuts (for normal people) expired in 2025.