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points by Someone 2 days ago | 0 comments

At least partly, it’s a form of choice-supportive bias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice-supportive_bias).

Your mind cannot live with the idea that you spent many, many hours learning an ugly API, so it makes you think it is better than it is.

[–] genxy 2 days ago

Sounds like C++ and OpenGL are BFFs.

[–] AnthonBerg 1 day ago

The quip is that C++ is fool's gold; Flying around in code and getting all the little mechanical details right really feels like getting things done. (It's just wizard- or mastery-flavored busywork. Glitter.)

I've later come to suspect that this glittering is sometimes useful as… fuel? Feeling-of-progress hands-on motivation-fuel.