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Code reuse was the holy grail of the 90's. People expected classes to be the unit of code reuse, then enterprise services, then after a dozen years of disillusi

Code reuse was the holy grail of the 90's. People expected classes to be the unit of code reuse, then enterprise services, then after a dozen years of disillusionment we finally got the recipe right.

still_grokking 5y ago
We finally got the recipe right? How? With micro-services? Or Kubernets clusters? Or copy-paste from SO? Or is it more about Linux packages? Maybe NPM? I'm really not sure we've got this right by now. Actually everything is over and over rewritten. May it be because of the language used, may it be because of frameworks, or architectures. Polyglot runtimes that could enable true code reuse at least across language boundaries (like GraalVM) are just emerging. For the higher build blocks though there's still nothing to enable efficient reuse. (People try of course. So mentioning micro-services was no joke actually).