> Not sure why people latch onto cruft so much and defend its continued use.
A characteristic of communities with lots of people that do not have a theoretical background. JS, PHP, jQuery, some parts of Ruby/Python -- they defend it with their life, and I argue it's because the rest of the world looks very scary to them.
A characteristic of communities with lots of people that do not have a theoretical background. JS, PHP, jQuery, some parts of Ruby/Python -- they defend it with their life, and I argue it's because the rest of the world looks very scary to them.