Code is tool to make art…
Someone once said code is poetry. Another person said code is law. Neither of these are true. Code is a tool of art. Not every person who works with the tool is producing art. Not every person loves the work they are put towards. But it is possible to love to code. To code because you are an artist. To code art. To code because it is a joy and you are joyful.
It is possible to do all of those things and not code well too! It is possible to code for joy badly, create something that has no particular accomplishments in the wider world, or massive value, or “true craft”. You can write spaghetti code of the worst sort for a janky program. Art need not be good to be art. Notably, no one will ever get to good art without playing to find their way past making bad art. That’s as true with painting and woodcarving as it is of code.
Code is a joy
This is a beautiful idea. The rest of the post is written from a very strong point of view and I will leave it as an exercise to you on how to interpret that.
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