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I've used all kinds of hand tools and cooking utensils that were terrible and made me wince or experience other discomfort as I used them


It's completely fair enough to argue that a language/tools is a bad at what it is made to do, but this needs to be pared out from tool choice.

A baking spatula makes a bad cooking spatula. It's pliable and can easily scrape the curved surface of a bowl, but for flipping a fried egg it is hopeless - in a pinch it will work - but it would be nice to have something rigid.

Further, describing it as making you "wince" is a recipe for a flame war bordering on deliberate bating. Just describe your issues with the language in more than a single charged word. You don't have to write an essay, just "I don't like the package management environment". That way people can have a constructive discussion.




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