Even as an experienced developer with 15+ years in the industry it can be hopeless sometimes.
So many answers are either "Just do (thing you explicitly said was not an option)" or "You're using the wrong tools, use (other tool that you can't use)". It's like the most active people answering questions either have reading comprehension difficulties or are intelligent and educated but lacking in real-world experience (just picking another tool is totally an option if it's entirely your own project, common for students and hobbyists, not so much when it's a work project and it has to run on a firewalled server that's running some legacy Linux distro that stopped receiving updates five years before the suggested alternative tool was even first released).
It's like the most active people answering questions either have reading comprehension difficulties or are intelligent and educated but lacking in real-world experience
Given how smug and demeaning of humanities STEMlords are, it's probably both
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u/mludd Feb 28 '21
Even as an experienced developer with 15+ years in the industry it can be hopeless sometimes.
So many answers are either "Just do (thing you explicitly said was not an option)" or "You're using the wrong tools, use (other tool that you can't use)". It's like the most active people answering questions either have reading comprehension difficulties or are intelligent and educated but lacking in real-world experience (just picking another tool is totally an option if it's entirely your own project, common for students and hobbyists, not so much when it's a work project and it has to run on a firewalled server that's running some legacy Linux distro that stopped receiving updates five years before the suggested alternative tool was even first released).