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> but it seems to be lacking when it comes to good programming.

That is an awfully heavy accusation for someone who hasn't even gotten their software running.

Not arguing about that specific project as I do not know anything about it, but not figuring out how to run software seems like a pretty big design issue. You can't always blame the user

I won't blame the user. I will say that it has very little to do with the underlying code quality though, at least without corroborating examples from the codebase.

I followed their documentation and tried two different ways that they mentioned to run the program. Nothing worked and I got obscure errors and the Jupyter kernel died several times. With Guidance, I just imported the library as mentioned in the docs and used it in the next line.

Does that necessarily reflect the quality of the underlying code, though? Does it even insinuate that the American software is inherently "better"?

I don't know the answer to that. I don't use the software. I think a lot of people are right to call your hypothesis out as hyperbole though, this entire post reads like a pointed complaint at German researchers for not outperforming Microsoft.

> this entire post reads like a pointed complaint at German researchers for not outperforming Microsoft.

I don't think it's fair to accuse me of such things. The post is a "question" not a "proof". If you have evidence that points to the contrary of what I said, I'd be happy to read it.

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