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I do not understand the disconnect that developers have with understanding all of the benefits that it brings. Because they've never worked on an old codebase,

by gaius 10y ago

I do not understand the disconnect that developers have with understanding all of the benefits that it brings. Because they've never worked on an old codebase, because front-end technologies change so often and everything just gets re-written anyway. It's a waste of time worrying about this when the code won't make it to is first birthday. If you were speaking to seasoned C and DB developers about stability in the tools and the platform, you'd be preaching to the choir.

bandrami 10y ago
This gets to the complaint that so much of the open source ecosystem gets to version 0.8.6 (whether it's named that or not) and then completely rewritten "this time the right way". That's not actually a good thing.
- prodigal_erik 10y ago
  As jwz put it, > It hardly seems worth even having a bug system if the frequency of from-scratch rewrites always outstrips the pace of bug fixing. Why not be honest and resign yourself to the fact that version 0.8 is followed by version 0.8, which is then followed by version 0.8?