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I've seen this pattern before: problems encountered with a new or different technology are attributed to that technology, while comparable problems with the exi
by tikhonj 5y ago
I've seen this pattern before: problems encountered with a new or different technology are attributed to that technology, while comparable problems with the existing system are seen as the fault of specific teams/developers or just as the sort of natural bugs you get in software development. The same kind of problem that's seen as a clear reason to avoid the less popular tool is seen as just something to solve or workaround in the more popular case.
That's how politics generally works: there always has to be a plausible "objective" reason for something, it just doesn't have to be applied uniformly or even actually true.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoWhat you say may be true in general. But we're specifically discussing being able to hire someone to take over a code base in a language, and no, the dominant languages do not have the same problem. You can find C# programmers under any rock. F# programmers? Not so much.