Post #1460539

2026-04-19 20:14 UTC

&quot;Coders, we are not writers.&quot; Speak for yourself. I am, in fact, both, and I genuinely get the same professional and creative pride from both.

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@pathunstrom@ngmx.com 2026-04-19 20:19

And frankly: Being good at writing was the harder skill to cultivate.

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@riley@toot.cat 2026-04-19 21:54

@pathunstrom As in, #LiterateProgramming ?

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@brass75@twit.social 2026-04-19 22:09

@pathunstrom programming is a creative outlet. I may not be writing for general consumption but I am writing for whoever looks at it next. Often that's me but not always. Coders are writers. We just don't write prose or poetry.

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@IanAMartin@thecanadian.social 2026-04-20 02:22

@pathunstrom A paragraph or sentence has all sorts of possibilities — metaphor, imagery, description of moment, character revelation — but the point of those words being selected and placed in that order is to provide a specific result in the mind of the reader. Eliminate the parenthetical clause in the sentence above, then replace ‘mind of the reader’ with ‘the computer’s CPU,’ and tell me how the two statements are not identical in their veracity. Writing is writing is writing.

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@fnordius@muenchen.social 2026-04-20 05:22

@pathunstrom @JoshuaACNewman this is why I feel If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript such an important book. Angus Croll saw that code is literature in its own way.

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