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I'm not really arguing with your point, I'm correcting your incorrect description of what I'm saying.

To argue with your actual point: I don't really care about the overall context, actively disallowing tests in a codebase is a _bad decision_. Look how it worked out for them.

it's time for you and I to bug out conversationally

Fine with me

He edited his reply to me multiple times...

I got the sense from your reply that some extra clarity would be beneficial.

This is unnecessary. OP came out with "AUTHOR IS INSANE" even on the most generous of interpretations.

I did not actually call the author insane, I called their decision to explicitly disallow testing insane. It's an insane decision. I am not _literally_ calling the author insane.

Did I say that my way was the right way? No: what I said was actively disallowing tests in every situation was the wrong way.

There is no ability here for the cost benefit analysis to change over time. There is only no tests

I think people underestimate how pragmatic meta programming can be because there are some obvious downsides. Arguably one of things that made Rust so popular was its inclusion of procedural macros.

But beyond that the thing I don't understand about the modern hate towards macros is that they are simply very fun.

I very much doubt that the authors would disagree with the statement that socializing is a fundamental human need considering they wrote it themselves

People told me I "should" exercise for years and I didn't, but when I did I suddenly got a lot less depressed and my life turned around for the better so I'm going to continue to trust other people

Socializing is not a "dull chore" it is a essential component of healthy living[1]

By not socializing, you are avoiding (to quote the linked article) a "fundamental human need." This is not something you can simply live without, just like you cannot live a good live without exercise.

The view you are espousing is fundamentally unhealthy.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11403199/

I get this in every day life, but it comes whenever I have to adjust the pods in my ears. But frankly I kinda expected these to pretty much suck until someone comes out with fully foam tips, at which point my problem will be completely solved as I no longer will have a need to adjust them