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I wonder why he changed his mind to these. They don’t seem that controversial.

• coldtea 6y ago
  They don't seem that controversial? There has been endless religious wars about lots of them. To point: > Typed languages are better when you're working on a team of people with various experience levels This is the static vs dynamically typed controversy. And if you think the consensus is "types are good" today, that wasn't at all the case 10 years ago or so. > Java isn't that terrible of a language. That was (and probably still is) the knee jerk reaction of many younger devs (and some older ones) > Designing scalable systems when you don't need to makes you a bad engineer. Not controversial in itself, but tons of people do it all the time and think it doesn't apply to their case... > DRY is about avoiding a specific problem, not an end goal unto itself. Many people take it religiously... > In general, RDBMS > NoSql The NoSQL/RD religious wars were all the rage when Mongo and co first appeared (even earlier, with BS Java projects like Prevalayer). > Functional programming is another tool, not a panacea. You'd be surprised how many think the opposite...