Why programmers burnout into existential depression

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17 points·freetonik··9 comments

You know too much psychology, when you can't get mad because you understand everyone's reasons for doing everything.

I miss the days of being able to actually program the damn thing instead of dealing with a million terrible dependencies and shitty YAML configs! Amen!

There are languages with great package managers and conservative package maintainers who do not add a package for every little thing

You and me both, and I will add json/xml to the list of "crappy" formats.

Bring back flat files :)

JSON is more or less ok, since there's no straightforward way to store objects anyway. Xml on the other hand should burn in hell.

I think this is just the flipside of Moore's law and the exponential progress of computing across the last 70 years.

I don't think you can realistically expect the benefits of rapid progress without the downsides of chaos and instability.

A world where all programs worked correctly for ever would probably be... a very stagnant world. Maybe we shouldn't wish for it

The chaos and instability reduce the pace of progress. I would say you can’t realistically expect rapid progress without a healthy degree of stability.

It's all a matter of degree - of course complete chaos is antithetical to progress.

Each task has the property to complicating over the time exceeding the capabilities of the one who solves it

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