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Despite the obvious levity, this is actually serious. It was made by why the lucky stiff, a pretty prominent member of Ruby community, back in the day. This, however, was part of his mysterious burnout manifesto, for lack of better term. He really really bloody needed a break.

"programming is rather thankless. u see your works become replaced by superior ones in a year. unable to run at all in a few more."

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[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Documentation should be larger than code.

Tests as well.

[-] umbraroze@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Tests as well.

In most programming languages, yes.

In Ruby? ...eeeeeeeehhhhhhhhh.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Programming, not Ruby.

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