• Corngood@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    We should have tools and libraries that help us avoid boilerplate, not ones that help us write more of it.

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      2 days ago

      Yes!

      I’m not even a programmer, but lot of this is really dictated by the language, isn’t it? (C or .Net, for example - and all the default crap needed for UI elements I’ve had to endure in Powershell, which was probably calling a .Net library)

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        C at least has a preprocessor. C# has almost nothing except generators, which are a huge pain in the ass. Java seems to be similar.

        Lisp is the greatest. Everything else is in between.