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TDD helps facilitates the process of building up of confidence in the product. However, the value it adds is contextual in the sense that if a product is not well defined and at a certain point of maturity then it may not be helpful to shift gears and adopt TDD.

But fundamentally no one should ever be trying to merge code that hasn’t been unit tested. If they are, that is a huge problem because it shows arrogance, ignorance, willingness to kick-the-can-down-the-road, etc.

From an engineering perspective the problem is simple: if you’re not willing to test your solution then you have failed to demonstrate that you understand the problem.

If you’re willing to subsidize poor engineering then you’re going to have to come to terms with adopting TDD eventually, at some stage of the project’s lifecycle, because, you have created an environment where people have merged untested code and you have no way to guarantee to stakeholders that you’re not blowing smoke. More importantly, your users care. Because your users are trusting you. And you should care most of all about your users. They are the ones paying your bills. Be good to them.

I was so upset about the Android iMessage crying yesterday this completely eliminated my sadness

So we’re just going start kicking and screaming because iOS users have a different experience than android users? Can anyone here help me understand why Android feels entitled to dictate non Android users’ experience? This seems like a cultural failure within Android that is a byproduct of their inability to satisfy their users. They have completely run out of cards and all that they have left is low budget low effort marketing like this - or is that actually all that they ever had, to begin with after all? Haha.

Maybe focus on delivering a meaningful experience for your users and pull your nose out of the tail end of the iPhone?

> I'd rather live in a world with spam than a world where corporations get to decide what I run on my devices,

Why do you present this as a binary choice?

Why do I need to suffer at the whims of your wants and needs? Why are you so hellbent on advertising your opinion in this binary manner? Don’t like iMessage? Use something else. Nobody is stopping you. Why do you feel compelled to bring the conversation back to this weirdly obsessed and diluted dilemma where you see a first party solution and start kicking and screaming incessantly

I will use the word `bash` for convenience. `bash` is powerful because it is convenient. `bash` is also powerful because it doesn't tell users how to behave or what to do. `bash` is all about empowering the user. That is what makes it great. `bash` is a meta language for the convenience and the empowerment of programmers. Over time, impossible tasks become trivial. You start off by using `bash` to create simple models of larger/more complex problems, then you adopt pipes and redirection, and eventually you don't need much handholding and you are 10x better at modeling problems, mocking designs, and general problem solving. Will there be 8 hour days to understand some simple concepts? Sure. Do they pay off? Yes. Absolutely yes. Undergraduate computer science background makes bash even more useful and helpful. Outside of college learning, you might be able to grok some things using man pages, tutorials, and various resources (like books).