"Significant whitespace" (e.g. python) is idiotic. Programmers should be free to write their own code in a manner which suits their sense of style (for which there is no accounting).
What's your most controversial programming opinion?
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#12AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, makers of OS like Microsoft and Apple should be regulated like other critical infrastructure. Along the lines of the FAA, FTC, & FCC, a new regulatory commission should be created to prevent a cyber meltdown of America.
Re: What's your most controversial programming opinion?
#1390% of the time, you could be doing a local function call. Your dozens of containers and multiple repos, all chained together with event queues, hook systems, and standing up async metaphors around fundamentally synchronous behaviours would matter if you scaled to infinity, but the real world business case would fit on a Raspberry Pi 1B if you didn't bloat it with all that IPC overhead in the first place.
Re: What's your most controversial programming opinion?
#14"Java's Checked Exceptions are the right idea and just need better syntactic sugar."
You strictly type your regular return values so that people have to make a clear decision about handling them, and everyone's fine... But do it for predictable categories of error, and some people lose their minds.