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> It's about being able to implement your ideas.

No, it's about creating something which does something useful and is easy to maintain. Plumbers have great ideas and approaches but you just want plumbing which works and can be fixed .

It's time developers realised they are plumbers not **** artists.

[HN reduced my expletive to just four asterisks which seems a bit reductionist]



> It's time developers realised they are plumbers not artists.

If we're plumbers, why all the memory leaks?

Or... are we also bad plumbers?


Speak for yourself, please.




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