one of my favorite illustrative anecdotes -- Rob Pike on options: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4535977 pic.twitter.com/dyQhvKEFkE
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Why not the happy medium? Have excellent defaults, but also let the users who want to configure and customize do so.
A lot of this would be a non issue if we had end user programming. The problem today is that 'configurability' is itself something the programmer needs to implement
in fact, it's quite easy to change acme's color theme _if_ you know how to program. you just go into its fairly clear C source code and change the colors: https://github.com/9fans/plan9port/blob/48da9bd71ddae0c51f8aff4c0d6806a8e32c4e23/src/cmd/acme/acme.c#L970 …
brb going to go fork a queer af color schemed plan9
He also believes, I presume, that no one has to deal with odd monitors or lighting conditions, nor is anyone ever colorblind.
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