if you're going to lobby that criticism, you should atleast offer an alternative definition of popular...unless you're saying your usage of a tool defines its popularity
Casey isn’t arguing with hypotheticals. Right in the discussion they explore a perf bug in the GitHub UI. So don’t strawman by drawing borders around sensitive domains. Because clean code ideas are still producing buggy code.
(I am making an assumption that GitHub UI uses clean code ideas, but I feel comfortable doing that.)
it's been chaffing me a lot last couple of years that it is so hard to learn about making performant code. It was nice of Julia Evans to write that very approachable strace zine [1]. I wished there was more of that kind of stuff. So I am happy Casey is doing a whole course on this stuff [2].