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Comment by rad_gruchalski | Hacker News Reader

I like how you shifted the goal post from “I” to “you” to justify your point of view. I don’t care, give me yaml, toml, json, jsonnet, ansible, who cares. It’s a tool. I’m not married to it.

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I'll use what I'll have to use, it's a tool like you said. But I don't have to love it. Configuration is a necessary evil and whatever I end up using, I'm never fully satisfied with the end result.

There’s no need to have any emotional connection to any tool.

You are right. However, it is my work and I do have an emotional connection to my work and my frustrations with certain technologies are very real.

Similarly, there's no need to comment on this.

Don’t comment then. You may not agree with me but I feel it is important to comment because it’s important to share an opinion shaping the path of new engineers joining the field. Tools are tools. Some are better than others. There’s no reason to have an emotional connection to them. Five years from now there will be new tools we never imagined we need. We are paid for getting the job done, not for an emotional opinion.

You seem to be the emotional one here, but hey, if it makes you feel better trying to police how other people react to stuff, then you do you, sister.

Also, what's this "we", just because you're being paid to be a robot doesn't mean everyone else is.

Woosh.

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