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I think it's better to cheer loudly when we see a monolith move an inch. Better to say you're going the right way than to say you have a mile minus an inch to g
by xori 10y ago
I think it's better to cheer loudly when we see a monolith move an inch. Better to say you're going the right way than to say you have a mile minus an inch to go.
- rch 10y agoLast week I might have agreed with you, but it is really difficult when I'm actually dealing with this mess.
- douche 10y agoIs the pain because it is ASP.NET MVC, or because you're trying to save an outsourced project? I've done that, and I've done greenfield MVC projects; one of these is much more painful than the other.
- rch 10y agoFor better or worse, I have a broad set of painful experiences from which to draw comparisons: PHP, Java (Swing, Spring, OSGI, RMI, Nuxeo), Fortran 77, Managed C++ circa 2004, "modern" Pearl, and even some remarkably awkward Python. My chief complaint is that it takes less effort to grab an open compiler and get to work on 20 y.o. Fortran (for instance) than it takes to spin up the whole stack that this relatively trivial MVC app requires[-]. Some years ago I would have had to buy the Lahey Fujitsu Fortran compiler, but those days are over as far as I can tell. Substantive greenfield projects (any platform) are marvelous by comparison; not even in the same ballpark. [-] Note that most of the platform pain goes away if you're a fungible MS dev, but then there's a more subtle and insidious pain for you to deal with down the road.