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Anyone else routinely roll their eyes at "why we moved from x to y" blogs? They are always just "We wanted to do this in a particular way. So we fought the fra
by jaimex2 10y ago
Anyone else routinely roll their eyes at "why we moved from x to y" blogs?
They are always just "We wanted to do this in a particular way. So we fought the framework till we decided to move to another that does things the way we thought they should be done. Now things are much better but we will fail to mention down the line all the new compromises we have to deal with"
- jstewartmobile 10y agoThis is not a "why" post. He did an N x N contingency table of how many people moved from language X to language Y, then rendered his findings as a set of directed graphs.
- douche 10y agoMost often, it's a "We built this thing initially in X until the legacy technical debt and proto-duction compromises caught up with us, then we rewrote it in Y, leveraging all the domain knowledge and experience we've gained after doing it in X. Amazingly, the second system in Y is better/faster/has less bugs!"