Comments by "Toby" (@toby9999) on "Continuous Delivery" channel.

  1. I would have hated it. A complete waste of time. I prefer working on my own. If I need help, I ask, but that's it. And also, fortunately, I had a great manager. But, the industry is full managers who try to introduce stupid ideas such as peer programming and other nonsensical ideas. I'm out of the industry now. It was great when I started almost 30 years ago, but now... not really.
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  2. Same for me. I just don't relate directly to people when they're in my space. I just switch off mentally. Must be the aspergers in me. Fortunately, we all started working remotely in 2020, and I loved it.
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  3. Eclipse would be an absolute nighmare, especially for beginners.
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  4. I've been a C++ programmer for 30 years. I love it. Flexible, powerful, and performant, and implementations build native executables by default. I agree with your approach to OOP. It's a tool, but it shouldn't dominate.
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  5. I hate the JVM conceptually. I also hate .NET conceptually. This is why I have an extreme dislike for any language that runs on these subsystems. Java being the most obvious one. The promise was to be platform independent. Then why develop a Windows only application in Java for instance? A lot do, and it's stupid. I even know of cases where a Java application is converted to native code. How silly is that? Why even bother making a desktop application cross platform when 99% of potential users run Windows? It's bloat. That remaining 1% may as well buy a Windows machine and have a better more performant application running natively. The most powerful platform is the hardware. Every unnecessary layer added on top is bloat.
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  6. Not sure why anyone would propose rapid fire commits. Why are people doing rapid fire commits anyway? People committing junk instead of finished work makes no sense to me. This constant committing seems to be a Git thing. I'll never commit anything unless I consider it completed work by some sensible metric.
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  7. I hate it. Been using SVN for 15 years no problem. Now Git has me tied up in knots. Git just wastes my time. Understanding Git is harder than the C++ development I'm actually paid to do. It's a nighmare.
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  8. Git is just awful. I'm a great believer in KISS keep it simple. Git is all about making it complex. All of this Git branching and merging creates more problems than it solves. I prefer SVN and a single branch approach I refer to as continuous merging. Regular updates keep my local copy up to date. No need for dozens of separate feature branches. Too many of them sit around for days or even weeks and cause horrible merge issues anyway. Additionally, code sitting in a feature branch is not available to the team and can cause delays. This never happened until we switched to a new fangled Git process.
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  9. The whole java development environment and ecosystem sucks big time, and some bits suck more than other bits... Eclipse IDE should probably head the list in terms of crapware. Even the Eclipse Foundation effectively admitted that there were serious problems related to usability and market share. Taken as a whole, java has been the worst language / dev environment I've encountered in my 30 years of coding. C++ is my favourite by a massive margin. If I had to choose 2nd place, it would be C. And no, I am not battle worn. I very rarely have problems with pointers and memory. And no, java is not as performant as C/C++ or Rust and a few others in the sane class.
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  10. It's both. It's a less than perfect idea implemented badly.
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  11. Why do you need to push stuff that isn't done? I only push/commit finished work. This is how I've worked for 25 years without issue.
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  12. I like it within a feature branch. Don't bring the useless crap into the main branch.
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  13. ​ @IronCandyNotes That's loudicrous.
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