Comment by mlevental

you know what grinds my gears? when I go looking for help on a problem and the answers I get are "don't do that it's not best practices". like not okay here's how you do it but you shouldn't but just flat out I'm not going to tell you. that's the most arrogant/presumptuous and consistent thing I've ever dealt with and it's absolutely unique to software development. It completely discounts the individuals personal experience (and abilities to make the right decision for themselves) and their circumstances (the project itself) and it's always around something dogmatic/a reflection of fanboyism. most recently on #reactjs I wanted to know if there were a way to have locally scoped styles in react like in Vue - I got only condescension about how react is for "bigboys" and hence eschews the practice. Finally someone said hey maybe try styled-components, which was basically close enough and has 16,000 stars on GitHub (so I doubt it's "worst practices"). software devs are some of the most zealous people I've ever met - everything is an opportunity to bike shed and every question or difference of opinion is an opportunity to quarterback someone else's code base.