Ok, so preface: this isn’t about you. Your comment just coalesced something I’ve been ruminating about recently.
I wish we, as humans, didn’t have this knee-jerk tenancy to make everything a zero-sum competition. Vi vs EMACS. x86 vs ARM. Windows vs Mac vs Linux vs FreeBSD. C vs Go vs Rust vs Clojure vs JavaScript. Arch vs the world.
It really is a zero-sum game, with real consequences. If your favorite distro becomes unpopular enough, it might die, and then you have to give up something you love. Windows winning the OS market for decades meant countless people had to suffer using Windows because the company they worked for mandated it. If I crusade for V(lang) enough, it might become popular enough for jobs to open for it.
The downside is that we’re constantly fighting against diversity, and that’s bad.
I suffer from this as much as anyone, and I hate that my first impulse is to either tear down “the opposition”, which at some point is nearly everyone, or schadenfreude.
“It is not enough that I succeed, but that others should fail.” It can’t be healthy.
I have no idea! It seems to be the human material. Have you ever heard of a solution? I can be aware of it and resist it, but what I hate is that instinctive, negative impulse, and I don’t think wishing it away is going to help.
Recognize tools for what they are? Just tools that accomplish task(s)
Also don’t forget how boring life is without some competition to keep the spirit lively
Ok, so preface: this isn’t about you. Your comment just coalesced something I’ve been ruminating about recently.
I wish we, as humans, didn’t have this knee-jerk tenancy to make everything a zero-sum competition. Vi vs EMACS. x86 vs ARM. Windows vs Mac vs Linux vs FreeBSD. C vs Go vs Rust vs Clojure vs JavaScript. Arch vs the world.
It really is a zero-sum game, with real consequences. If your favorite distro becomes unpopular enough, it might die, and then you have to give up something you love. Windows winning the OS market for decades meant countless people had to suffer using Windows because the company they worked for mandated it. If I crusade for V(lang) enough, it might become popular enough for jobs to open for it.
The downside is that we’re constantly fighting against diversity, and that’s bad.
I suffer from this as much as anyone, and I hate that my first impulse is to either tear down “the opposition”, which at some point is nearly everyone, or schadenfreude.
“It is not enough that I succeed, but that others should fail.” It can’t be healthy.
You are absolutely right 😇
I feel we’ve identified a problem quite well, but I’m at more of a loss for a solution-oriented perspective? And also, VI x86 and Gentoo for life!
I have no idea! It seems to be the human material. Have you ever heard of a solution? I can be aware of it and resist it, but what I hate is that instinctive, negative impulse, and I don’t think wishing it away is going to help.
Recognize tools for what they are? Just tools that accomplish task(s) Also don’t forget how boring life is without some competition to keep the spirit lively