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> In particular we had a particular giant tech debt: we had fallen behind on React versions. Worse, I don't want to read any further. Surely it doesn't get wor

• jacques_chester 7y ago
  It's a dependency for our main visual library, PivotalUI, which is meant to give a uniform brand across all our products. When you get a flagship site falling behind the products that customers have installed, it looks dumb. But more to the point: it slowed development. I could deal with a bit of visual glitchiness, but my job as an engineer is to create software to solve problems. Piling hacks on top of hacks doesn't do that and it's shitty to the next engineer who joins the team.