You are correct on the last part. Almost everything you read about in programming is an opinion. I am glad that you took that last quote to heart, it’s a key point. ❤️
The first statement you mentioned was a comment about that tweet but about other things Kent has written, for example recently he told people to avoid mocking fetch and use a fake object library instead. Mocking fetch is a perfectly valid testing technique that I and many other coaches have been teaching for years, so when Kent writes an article about his lived experience as if it were fact, it takes a lot of extra work to undo that message, because the people we’re coaching get confused about who to listen to and who’s “right”. Obviously there’s no right (see above) but it takes time and energy to have that discussion, which gets tiring when it happens again and again.
That’s why this article was written.
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You are correct on the last part. Almost everything you read about in programming is an opinion. I am glad that you took that last quote to heart, it’s a key point. ❤️
The first statement you mentioned was a comment about that tweet but about other things Kent has written, for example recently he told people to avoid mocking fetch and use a fake object library instead. Mocking fetch is a perfectly valid testing technique that I and many other coaches have been teaching for years, so when Kent writes an article about his lived experience as if it were fact, it takes a lot of extra work to undo that message, because the people we’re coaching get confused about who to listen to and who’s “right”. Obviously there’s no right (see above) but it takes time and energy to have that discussion, which gets tiring when it happens again and again.
That’s why this article was written.