Name: Anonymous 2016-11-08 12:55
we spend a lot of time here laughing at /g/ros and redditors - and we have reasons. they're stupid, their egos are bigger than their knowledge, they're easily impressed by overpriced gear they don't need and flashy visual effects, they shit up every place they visit with stale memes. despite that, I've been wondering: can a /g/ro grow?
let me reiterate this, now with more details. /g/ros and redditors are statistically insignificant. most programmers don't visit /g/ or reddit or hackernews. of course most programmers don't visit /prog/ too. that's because your average programmer isn't actually interested in programming enough to join a community like that. most programmers are code monkeys who just want to get paid: they don't experiment with different languages, they don't have strong preferences, they don't argue whether Clojure is a(n acceptable) Lisp. they're unrestrained pajeets who defecate unstructured sepples onto a designated shitting codebase, they're same pajeets subjugated by the totalitarian enterprise with its design patterns until they start to enjoy it and turn into Java architects, they're webmonkeys who take whichever JavaShit framework is popular and apply it to a permanently broken PHP backend, they're appers who want to jump on the bandwagon and become the next big thing in pointless mobile bullshit. they either never had souls or they had their souls sucked out of them.
in comparison, a /g/ro is a like a child - unskilled but curious, impressionable but willing to tinker. with time, are they destined to be eaten and shat out by the industry or is it possible to make them learn and be like /prog/riders? I'm not talking about specifics: for the purpose of this threads it doesn't matter if they're lithpers (and which lithp they use, and whether they rely on macros or functions) or low-level programmers (and if they prefer portable C or assembly or *nix-specific shit or embedded systems) or securityfags. it doesn't matter if they're bytefuckers or type-safety zealots or if they minimize SLOC at all costs or bloat their programs to hell. if they care about the choice and are able to back it up with actual arguments, they've already risen above most codemonkeys. if we can make them grow - how? if we can't - are we doomed?
let me reiterate this, now with more details. /g/ros and redditors are statistically insignificant. most programmers don't visit /g/ or reddit or hackernews. of course most programmers don't visit /prog/ too. that's because your average programmer isn't actually interested in programming enough to join a community like that. most programmers are code monkeys who just want to get paid: they don't experiment with different languages, they don't have strong preferences, they don't argue whether Clojure is a(n acceptable) Lisp. they're unrestrained pajeets who defecate unstructured sepples onto a designated shitting codebase, they're same pajeets subjugated by the totalitarian enterprise with its design patterns until they start to enjoy it and turn into Java architects, they're webmonkeys who take whichever JavaShit framework is popular and apply it to a permanently broken PHP backend, they're appers who want to jump on the bandwagon and become the next big thing in pointless mobile bullshit. they either never had souls or they had their souls sucked out of them.
in comparison, a /g/ro is a like a child - unskilled but curious, impressionable but willing to tinker. with time, are they destined to be eaten and shat out by the industry or is it possible to make them learn and be like /prog/riders? I'm not talking about specifics: for the purpose of this threads it doesn't matter if they're lithpers (and which lithp they use, and whether they rely on macros or functions) or low-level programmers (and if they prefer portable C or assembly or *nix-specific shit or embedded systems) or securityfags. it doesn't matter if they're bytefuckers or type-safety zealots or if they minimize SLOC at all costs or bloat their programs to hell. if they care about the choice and are able to back it up with actual arguments, they've already risen above most codemonkeys. if we can make them grow - how? if we can't - are we doomed?