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It's just a meme.

Like it is also trendy to have an over-sized picture of young people working on wooden desks in an industrial-chic office taking up 70% of the screen space.

Goes nicely with the Bootstrap template, Lobster font, Circular cropped photos of founders, Ping pong tables, Ruby on Rails. Etc. Etc.

Upvoted for sheer cynical accuracy ;-)

That's a good point! Though in RethinkDB's case I'd like to make an exception.

~30,000 commits and long discussion such as this one: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/281

It's a way to imply that the all of the fiddly little details don't suck.

Everyone's run into that library, SaaS product, or other bit of software where all of the features sound awesome, it appears to do exactly what you need ... and you'd rather debug a plugged in blender than actually use it.

Would you much rather it was not built with love?

I really fail to see how saying "built with love" matters at all.

I would kinda like a DB built with cold-heated ruthless efficiency and precision, actually.