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I wonder if Microsoft has long-term plans to move Github off of things like Unicorn/Rails/Erlang into a technology stack that would be more familiar to them. I
by EMM_386 6y ago
I wonder if Microsoft has long-term plans to move Github off of things like Unicorn/Rails/Erlang into a technology stack that would be more familiar to them.
I'm not judging the choices of technology, but I'm thinking it was easier for them to buy Github outright then try to compete with it. I assume Github still operates independently, with engineers who are familiar with this stack.
- rantwasp 6y agohah. good luck just moving it to another stack. this just doesn’t happen. also, what does familiar to them means in the MS context? i’m sure the people that work on github are familiar with the stack
- EMM_386 6y agoAgreed, the comment was short sighted. Was hesitant to even post it considering many involved are likely here on HN. I wasn't sure how independent Github is from Microsoft after the acquisition. My thoughts were initially in moving engineers around internally from within Microsoft to work on Github. Multi-threaded race conditions in a Rails app under Unicorn Rack takes a lot of experience in specific tooling.