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I can switch the database with ease In my experience an organisation is far, far more likely to switch operating systems or hardware platforms or programming l
by goatinaboat 7y ago
I can switch the database with ease
In my experience an organisation is far, far more likely to switch operating systems or hardware platforms or programming languages than they are the database. But no programmer bothers to code in a clever but restricted syntax that would be a valid program in both C# and Java. Or restricts themselves to a core set of OS features or hardware instructions just in case. It really is quite bizarre to watch.
- karatestomp 7y agoPlus it’s fairly common to end up with more than one program, in more than one language, reading from and writing to a DB. The more you’ve avoided using DB features (in featureful databases, anyway) the slower (in performance and dev time) and riskier (you will have more bugs, and maybe some pretty bad ones) this is.
- vp8989 7y agoI don't think anyone would bother to port code from C# to Java in 2020, but I agree with your point. Not using a technology to it's fullest in favor of portability is not smart. I think most things we build on top are sufficiently complex now that even with these self-imposed limits, porting everything over from X to Y is a major undertaking.