Falsehoods Programmers Believe

Author seems to have struck a nerve with many such programmers in this comments section.

To me it seems the author is expressing his own inability to code in the language, why discuss someone's opinion?

It sounds more like a dig on their programming experience.

But it was an article about the merits of one programming language, in which the author made erroneous and ignorant remarks about another programming language, and other ignorant remarks about programming language features (mild ones like associating static typing with verbosity). It's not as if they made some flawed remarks about mathematics or electrical engineering, which truly are different fields. For me, it detracted from the author's credibility, because they apparently don't have a bread

I'm sorry, but a code comment does not demonstrate lack of expertise, although such a perspective certainly brings your own expertise into question. Perhaps we should all assume a little less?

Unrelated to the original post.This will come off as condescending, but I mean it with the best intentions. I see that you are relatively new in HN. Comments like these are nonconstructive and generally frowned upon here.I'm not saying that your criticism isn't valid (or otherwise), but its preferable to include some actual notations, quotes or reason behind such statements.Overall comment: Such blanket statements are insulting, and usually erroneous. All programmers are capable to le

Yes the author was criticizing the kind of "I have deep CS knowledge, you are just pushing pixels" arrogance.

The article has some valid points. But a person who needs to emphasize his superiority against novice programmers in such a way lacks maturity of personality.

You should write a blog about this. You could call it "Examining falsehoods programmers believe about the unreasonable effectiveness of 'considered harmful' for fun and profit."

I think this is a ... bad take? Ambiguous and confusing(ed)? I mean - I guess there are people who believe in some stereotype of "real programmers", but this post kind of buys into this stereotype by arguing with it, and then does it in a way to comes of as ... lazy and envious? In this post - some points are straw-man/stereotype and some seem ... to deny worthiness of in-depth expertise, skill and experience.I'd compare with ...I like playing soccer, but I'm nowh