Great article - though in my opinion, what you describe is much more "a tool for the job" than a "general outlook on life."
There's times when code needs a gentle massage, a little love and attention. There's also times when a bug simply needs a precision strike from orbit. Some developers are better suited to either end of that spectrum, but a Good Developer should at least be able to cope on either end.
Even with those orbital strikes, we should at least have the manners to tidy up afterwards, but in the real world, we're not always afforded that time - and that is the burden we bear in the form of technical debt.
To me, the only "bad developer" is one that doesn't deliver.
Very true! Like with everything else in life, balance and adaptability is needed to succeed.
But I guess that everyone leans towards on side or the other of this broad spectrum :)
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Great article - though in my opinion, what you describe is much more "a tool for the job" than a "general outlook on life."
There's times when code needs a gentle massage, a little love and attention. There's also times when a bug simply needs a precision strike from orbit. Some developers are better suited to either end of that spectrum, but a Good Developer should at least be able to cope on either end.
Even with those orbital strikes, we should at least have the manners to tidy up afterwards, but in the real world, we're not always afforded that time - and that is the burden we bear in the form of technical debt.
To me, the only "bad developer" is one that doesn't deliver.
Very true! Like with everything else in life, balance and adaptability is needed to succeed.
But I guess that everyone leans towards on side or the other of this broad spectrum :)