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I'm not sure HN headlines - even ones like "we rewrote our codebase with X" - indicate that people are actually rotating libraries quickly. Rather, they indicat
by twhb 9y ago
I'm not sure HN headlines - even ones like "we rewrote our codebase with X" - indicate that people are actually rotating libraries quickly. Rather, they indicate our quickly-shifting curiosity, and cherry-pick instances of people actually acting on it because they're interesting. Tellingly, the "rewrite" blog posts usually are coming not from the fad preceding the current, but something much older.