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There've been studies on the "more expensive" part, and IIRC it's about a 15% premium in terms of development time - there've been a few studies. Here's one I c
by groby_b 8y ago
There've been studies on the "more expensive" part, and IIRC it's about a 15% premium in terms of development time - there've been a few studies. Here's one I could turn up quickly: https://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/Papers/XPSardinia.PDF https://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/Papers/XPSardinia....
Simultaneously, you get a bunch of benefits. (Most importantly, there's no bus factor of 1 for anything)
- wpietri 8y agoAbsolutely. Just the bus factor thing was amazing on its own. It's the very rare startup where anybody can take a vacation whenever they need. But that was definitely my experience. Even though I was the first programmer, in pretty short order there was nothing where my absence a blocker. It was great.
- lowercased 8y agoi'd think another benefit might be 'better code' overall. has there been any study about the quality of code from these setups? number of bugs or security issues, for example?
- groby_b 8y agoAlso covered in that paper