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How does a technology become mature if no one wants to test it? I get your point, but we need both type of people in the real world: cutting-edge tech enthusias
by brundozer 6y ago
How does a technology become mature if no one wants to test it? I get your point, but we need both type of people in the real world: cutting-edge tech enthusiasts and stable products users. The problem is not that some people try out some fancy new tool, it's that they try it at work and waste lots of money without even being worried about it because it's not theirs. But in few cases it also pays off.
- machinelabo 6y agoWe have RFCs, proper PEP proposals, committees and a proper academic + enterprise + indie developer communities beta testing it and providing inputs. Not haphazardly monkey patching anything you see, add emojis to make it look cute and get 30k stars on GitHub. I want formalization of software development. It is orthogonal to experimentation and trying out fresh ideas. Change is good. But not towards a local optimum and getting stuck there.
- Tade0 6y agoTrue, but I feel like a lot of the new stuff gets adopted just because a tech celebrity endorsed it.