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This is exactly it. People are running a business, not writing an a treatise on code maintenance and hygiene.

• blub 9y ago
  Ok, then the business men among us should learn their lesson, that agility matters. The software developers among us should also learn their lesson: don't build large-scale software in dynamic programming languages unless you can afford to spend time later adding a static type system on top.
  • walrus1066 9y ago
    I'd think the business men at Instagram have been very happy with the agility of development, that got them to a $2.8 billion revenue p/a company. More than enough to cover the engineering effort to help improve the maintainability of the code.
    • yen223 9y ago
      Considering the company that bought them runs on PHP, perhaps we should all ditch Python altogether.
  • gxs 9y ago
    I agree - there's just always a condescending tone in the way people question the technical practices in hindsight of companies that are successful.