This is the first article in my myth busting series where the conclusion is not mine. In fact, the above sentence originates from the book called "...
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Great article.
That's always possibly true, but it's especially true if you have multiple devs that are individually very good, very opinionated and who love to argue. And oh boy do developers love to argue!
At a previous job the front-end team was stuck for two or three weeks because there were passionate debates on how TypeScript imports should be ordered. PRs could not be merged before this was resolved because each one was reverting the imports in the "right" order. I'm not a front-end dev myself, so if someone knows why that's important, I would love to get to the bottom of this, even if it takes one month of hard work.
Hahahahaha :D
Some things are too important to be debated comes to mind ... ;)
Edit - Define "good". A big motivation for me with these articles is to redefine the meaning of the word "good developer". Today unfortunately, it's abused, and misunderstood, such that the dev that knows the most complex theory is perceived as "the best" - While often the exact opposite is true, as in the more pragmatic developer is better for all practical concerns. I once spent two hours quarrelling with a colleague over UTC best practices. Interestingly, we were mostly in agreement, something I tried to emphasise (in vain) to get out of the fight. However, he was persistent, and refused to stop shouting, until I showed him a Jon Skeet blog where my argument originated from.
Objective this guy was better than me. However, I created in 30 minutes what he failed to create in 4.5 months. Yet again, define "good" ... :/
That's a great question.
I would differentiate solo projects and working in a team.
For solo projects, do whatever makes you happy and productive.
Want to program in Haskell? Go for it.
When working in a team, I wish we had something like the Serenity Prayer
A nice article with so many valuable points.
Thx Andrew 😊
Nonsense, if you get good people development will be faster, usually people who code completely alone suck at coding because they never learned to work in a team well .. if you can't manage a team with 10 people you are just not a good team leader.
Linus Torvalds made git alone. Just sayin' ...
... but he probably "sux", right ...? ;)
if you compare 99% of the people with Linux Torvalds you make a huge logical mistake
even bigger nonsense
Bring it up with Jeff Bezos, I'm sure he wants to hear your objections ... ;)
Just google many have objections to him a good team consists of 5-12 people, they will be very hungry with two pizzas