I feel like a fraud and that’s a good thing
I thought this was going to be a humblebrag -- and boy, it sure started out that way -- but I was pleasantly surprised by the end.<p>It made me think about how some tools, libraries, or frameworks seem to prefer to use buzzwords or neologisms to make simple things seem complicated. As though by obfusticating the problem domain, they can make their solution seem that much more magnificent. As though the docs should make you feel stupid.<p>And the reason they do this is because in our industry, it works. Things often seem impressive to the degree that they seem complicated. People are "advertising" their stuff by making it seem like a special snowflake instead of a simple thing.<p>Far be it from me to blame people for doing something that works. But there is a bit of an echo chamber, especially in this forum, where developers -- <i>developers</i>, not marketers, not "suits" -- prefer to use buzzwords over plain language, and they would rather you think they did something complicated than something simple or something solid.