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my initial reaction, as a developer, is that most of what I do is in one language, so I want to use a platform that is a specialist and not a generalist. That
by bradleyjoyce 16y ago
my initial reaction, as a developer, is that most of what I do is in one language, so I want to use a platform that is a specialist and not a generalist.
That said, I'm sure I'll check it out and it does sound intriguing.
- spahl 16y agoOne language may be fine but there is also different types of databases, queueing systems...
- 6ren 16y agoIt may be that for small projects, this is mostly a non-issue. Historically, heterogeneity has been a big problem for a long time. Vendors want lock in; customers don't. Much of Oracle's early success was about being hardware agnostic. Similar for Java. All that XML nonsense, that everybody hates but that has incredibly widespread adoption, was also about inter-op: it's crap, but it's ubiquitous crap. Now, I don't know is this is an issue in the cloud. But vendors will want lock in; customers won't.