You Can Choose Tools That Make You Happy

Stop falsifying your motivations.

On Hacker News and Lobsters I often see blog posts with titles like: Why I built my startup on Common Lisp and DragonflyBSD Rewriting PyTorch in APL (year six update) I will never, ever, ever learn Docker The general form being: why Obscure Thing is better than Popular Thing. And always the justification is purportedly rational and technical. And always, always, it is complete sophistry. Why? Because people make technical decisions, in part, for affective reasons. They choose a technology because it feels good, or comfortable, or because it’s what they know. They choose obscure tech as a form

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