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"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: if you didn't mean it dismissively and want to clarify that, I'd be happy to remove this comment. We unfortunately see quite a few comments along the lines of "so basically, this is just super-simple $thing and therefore this is dumb" and I interpreted yours through that lens.

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Is it a dismissal or is it someone asking for affirmation on their understanding of the product? I think it can be read both ways.

If it is for for affirmation. The answer is Yes. I even write a similar tool using Scons. However, dbt is far better.

I wavered about that for a little while and then settled on the dismissive interpretation.

If I misread the comment and elchief wants to clarify, I'd be happy to apologize and correct the mistake.

I actually really like DBT and advocated for it. It is however quite a simple tool, just some wrappers and a workflow around SQL transformations. Maybe it’s simplicity is it’s quality, but the OP you replied to isn’t as far off the mark as similar comments.

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