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jedberg doesn't seem like a naïve person, glancing at his work history. Perhaps you could explain why you think this opinion is naïve?

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Even skilled programmers often make the mistake of saying "why don't you just..." or "it's easy, just..." when completely ignoring large important factors, such as following process, ensuring backward compatibility, stakeholder alignment (ugh), and addressing long tail problems.

Yes, but it's reasonable to note such things instead of simply derogating the remark.

"There are two types of programmers: new ones who don't know how complicated things are, and experienced ones who have forgotten it" -from an article on HN the other day about setting up python envs.

There also are programmers who are aware of much more complicated things being done in sister projects, like JVM and JS runtimes in this case.

An appeal to authority? I suppose it'd be better if you named the article's author or linked to it.

Not appealing to anyone; I thought it was a clever quote.

* https://www.bitecode.dev/p/why-not-tell-people-to-simply-use

EDIT -- Here is the quote:

There are usually two kinds of coders giving advises. A fresh one that has no idea how complex things really are, yet. Or an experienced one, that forgot it.

It's clever, but like (almost) all such things, doesn't always apply.

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