other relevent XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2166/

Coding is kind of like being a wizard. Like, y’all put a bunch of nonsense in just precisely the right order and then some electrictrified minerals bounce around and then a sandwich shows up at my door.

If the process was almost any amount sexier we would absolutely not let half the people running tech startups near it for -gestures broadly- obvious reasons.

Yet people give me shit when I say “I don’t want that js tool because it has too many dependencies”

One of those backdoors is in the front.