Parse and Validate are not binary choices and have nothing to do with each other. Both are useful when applied correctly to a given situation.

I felt punked by most of it. I dont see what programming languages have to do with it either. Look at swift, a language that can barely only barely parse JSON. Who cares?

At first it hooks you these cross cutting concerns, but then you realize it handled better as a simple dependency.

AOP as a concept is great, however in practice using real world tools never lived up to the implications.

Its all or nothing, almost if not all code can be written as a "cross cutting concern"

I could write one function for the rest of my life, and simply use AOP to inject a different program.

but WHY would I do that? Something so incongruous with my mission as a software engineer. AOP was pretened smalltalk MVC glue for other languages that didnt have it at the time.

It didnt last long and it wont be back.

Because of the disaster of screen resolutions, mobile form factors and all the previous dishonesty inherent in the past 30 years of software development?

That must be really useful. The machines are not the problem. UI layout was solved 40 years ago on all windowed and non windowed platforms.

Mobile breakpoints are not special.

How about the browser as a "failed platform"? Seems to fit! Hardware is irrelevant.

But you didnt grow up reading BYTE magazine.

Are you volunteering to fix their bugs?

I was fired from my first software job the day I showed up. It was 1982. The Apple II was quite mature the PC was on scene.

I showed up 30 mins late. The software chief fired me.

I said "why Im only 30 mins late?", he replied "because I can write a complete accounts receivable system in 30 mins."

I was 14.

And he wasnt lying. He could. Using tools available to him in 1982.

You in 2026, cannot using an LLM, maybe the sass is there. But YOU cant make it. Copy and paste and prebuilt apps will always and forever beat intellectual property theft obfuscation.

Dont get any ideas this didnt happen here. This was in Alabama.

Im still coding professionally.

HN is getting closer to that every day.

If AI kickback deals, phony new model ratings, high RAM prices and your surprise at how you think you coded something with AI and it was AMAZING! even though it doesnt work is all there is count me out.

We need a filter on existing tech news sites or an alternative press.

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