If Scala has a million haters then I'm one of them.

If Scala has only one hater then that's me.

If Scala has no haters then I'm dead. #Scala

RT: Software industry needs some standards:

Until software engineering adopts the same standards, certifications, consistency, and accountability as traditional engineering, along with real consequences, these arguments don’t hold much weight.

This entire modern industry was built on the opposite philosophy: agile. Move fast, break things. Ship iteratively with minimal design. Drop production? Just revert. Outage? Oops.

Software is still treated like a toy. It’s playdough in the hands of toddlers led by other toddlers. You might be among the 1% who do things properly.. but the other 99% don’t.

Related: Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools #Programming

Part two of 21:02 About affairs.

So why is it a big deal whether it's punished structurally or not?

Because it actually has consequences. I will take forgiveness as a prime example, is forgiveness possible?. That question arrives too late and already assumes the wrong moral frame. The ethical question is not “can I forgive you?” but “what kind of world can exist after this?” And more precisely, who is now required to do the metaphysical labor of making reality continuous again?

So the person who breaks the structure gets to appeal to sincerity, remorse, growth, trauma, youth, confusion, loneliness, destiny. Meanwhile the person who was lied to is quietly conscripted into an ethical cleanup crew. If they forgive, they are mature. If they hesitate, they are bitter. If they refuse, they are cruel.

Let me iterate again over how affairs work, it does not just 'hurt', It reorganizes moral reality without consent. One person decides that continuity is optional and shared truth can be suspended temporarily and that another human being can live inside a partial fiction for an extended period of time aka unilateral world-editing.

And forgiveness is often proposed as a way to reverse that edit. But forgiveness cannot restore symmetry. It cannot un-know knowledge or make memory innocent again. At best, it offers a way to live with the fracture. At worst, it demands that the injured party perform moral theater in order to stabilize a structure they did not damage.

What people call forgiveness is often compliance dressed up as virtue. There is a strange ethical inversion at work. The one who violated trust is allowed complexity and their motives are examined, contextualized, humanized. The one who was violated is expected to be clean, generous, forward-looking, their anger is treated as a failure of character rather than a correct moral signal.

But doesn't refusing forgiveness keeps you trapped in the past? Well, being forced to live in a future built on unresolved falsity is not much better. Forgiveness that arrives before accountability is not healing, it is gaslighting with a moral accent.

There is no moral obligation to forgive someone who has restructured your world without consent.

Something that is often said also, is that, you gain "freedom" when you forgive, aka free yourself. freedom that requires denying the truth is not freedom but an amputation.

These are not tragedies because people feel too much or sensitive or love so much but ethical failures because someone decides that shared reality is negotiable. And once that line is crossed, the demand for forgiveness often becomes just another way to avoid paying the full cost of what was done.

Not every story needs reconciliation. Some need accuracy.

And accuracy, unlike forgiveness, does not care if it makes anyone comfortable.