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You're conflating the act of building a product with the act of writing code. Even in the most expressive of languages, there are objectively good and bad ways of instructing your hardware to perform a particular calculation or set of calculations - and in the more rigid languages there is often a flat-out right and wrong way.

Design your product with as much free thought and creativity as you please, but never let yourself believe your actual code is art. That - among many other outcomes - is how your platform gets compromised and your customers' identities stolen - not to mention how the successors to your job end up cursing your name and wasting time and money replacing your code wholesale.



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