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Damien Katz: CouchDB switching from Erlang to Java
- acangiano 19y agoVery amusing. :)
- anupamkapoor 19y agoaf08
- Readmore 19y agoI allllmost fell for that one ;) The lego bricks line saved it for me.
- brlewis 19y agoBest part: Developers in the US who've worked on a successful Erlang project probably number less than 10. But the number of developers who've worked on a successful Java project are easily 100X that amount. With a much wider talent pool to work from the quality of the contributions should increase dramatically.
- ALee 19y agoPG wrote that, "if a company chooses to write its software in a comparatively esoteric language, they'll be able to hire better programmers, because they'll attract only those who cared enough to learn it." Can someone help explain this paradox? Is it just that there aren't that many great programmers out there, so Damien was forced to java or is he just taking the wrong route?
- brlewis 19y agoYesterday was April Fools day. There is no actual switch to Java. The humor here is the obfuscated statement that fewer than 1000 developers in the U.S. have been involved in a successful Java project. Damien and PG are on the same page.
- ALee 19y agodamn, caught in the back thread! Thanks (sheepishly)
- oz 19y agoDamn! I keep getting caught...
- michaelneale 19y agoAmusing but still waiting something like a 1.0 couch db release. Its a DB, not a web server, kind of has to be uber stable.