@detritus @knowprose @cwebber A lot of code is written to be thrown away. Not everyone knows that when they're writing it though.

Code that's useful long term inevitably becomes a nightmare or weird shit done by weird people for weird reasons. Hopefully you still have the weird people round to explain it.

"why didn't you use the C++23 std::ranges templates?" Same reason I didn't start my current project in Rust... 2005 me: "Rust? What's that?"