I guess the dev community is very fierce and unforgiving. That's what I don't like about it.

Only on SO...

We care about work, that's bound to raise some strong opinions.

Is this about your last rant? I thought people posted pretty good advice in it.

@RememberMe They sure did.
After all, one will never make progress if not faced serious challenges and criticism:)
I get it, and I've gotta soak it up and keep moving.

Nah. The majority are just loner neckbeard incel autist types and that always leads to a lot of hostility.

Just read the mentioned previous rant.

It's something everyone could have and would have done. I still do. And it's alright, you just have to do another find and replace for "letiables "

I'm not saying what you did is right. But knowing your own missteps and correcting is the only important thing.

Code quality matters significantly more than feelings. The former is persistent, the latter ephemeral.

@Root but that ephemeral feelings can turn your whole life upside down in a second :3

@cursee Feelings are irrelevant.

I’m sorry, we are just protective of a
our code. It keeps us in a job, and some crazy psychopath will end up maintaining it one day.... so let’s do him/her a favour and leave it in a good state.

As for unforgiving, a lot of devRant users have been doing this for along time (coding), the others are mostly juniors with a handful in between (in my observations), so from 1 senior to another, the comments on that var / let rant would be relatively appropriate feedback, but from a senior to a junior it would be easily taken as harsh criticism.