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For unimportant products, or features of your product (maybe), sure. Your bank is down because some yahoo thought Nim and GraphQL on Neo4j would be fun? Less s

For unimportant products, or features of your product (maybe), sure. Your bank is down because some yahoo thought Nim and GraphQL on Neo4j would be fun? Less so.

nicoburns 6y ago
True, but if your app is running Rust on Postgres, then that might well be a win over C++ on OracleDB. For me a key thing is that "boring" doesn't just mean mature and well established. C++ is mature and well established but it's not boring because there are all sorts of nasty memory safety issues to keep things "exciting". OracleDB is mature and well established, but from what I hear you have to pay expensive fees to do all sorts of things: that's not boring!
- flixic 6y ago
  Very good point. "Exciting" is in the eye of the beholder.
- heurist 6y ago
  Safe and flexible would be a better target than exciting or boring. Those are a bit harder to quantify than newness though.
elcritch 6y ago
Point taken, but Nim is pretty stable in my (somewhat limited) experience with it. Though the original article does mention innovation tokens, which in this case would be exceeded.
bluepizza 6y ago
My bank is usually down because their systems were offshored to rather low paid professionals. If management doesn't care, why should I?