[marxism]

Here's an example of gold plating from a CLI I created this past weekend.

I did not like the terse errors when parsing JSON. "invalid type: boolean `true`, expected a string", line: 3, column: 24

So I asked for Elm style friendly error messages that try to give you all the information to fix things right up front.

https://github.com/PeoplesGrocers/json-archive/blob/master/s... https://github.com/PeoplesGrocers/json-archive/blob/master/s...

And then since I had time, I asked for some documentation to show/explain the various edge case handling decisions I made.

https://github.com/PeoplesGrocers/json-archive/blob/master/d...

It's gold plating because no one wants or needs my little tool. If I spent that same hour iterating on the output format to be more user friendly while at work, I would be taken out behind the woodshed and shot. It's pure wasted effort.

[jcims]

Exactly.