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116 points FredrikMeyer | 1 comments | 20 Oct 25 16:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.222s | source
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ekjhgkejhgk ◴[20 Oct 25 17:20 UTC] No.45646503[source]▶
How come everything is "opinionated" these days, and since when has that become a compliment? I don't want software to have opinions, I want it to do what I tell it.
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1. wltr ◴[20 Oct 25 17:32 UTC] No.45646639[source]▶
Write your own then, I guess. I prefer a developer to have at least some basic understanding of what they’re developing and why. And when they do, and when they themselves use their product, they do have opinions. In my opinion, especially if the project is open source, you’re free to do as you like.

I like opinionated software, because usually the developer uses the software themselves, and they prefer to not have some features you might like. I’m fine with that, if our opinions are similar. If not, I just might ignore that software, I guess. Sure thing, we cannot make all software opinionated, there’s no point in that. But some of it, I enjoy it to be that way.