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I kind of disagree on the Cambrian explosion of languages being a bad thing. While it has downsides, it has a massive upside of discouraging stuff like crazy cu
by slaymaker1907 5y ago
I kind of disagree on the Cambrian explosion of languages being a bad thing. While it has downsides, it has a massive upside of discouraging stuff like crazy custom build pipelines. Big companies love to burn money and time by reinventing everything. Bigco isn't going to try and implement their own build system if they need to support a dozen languages.
- high_5 5y agoMicroservices have a marvelous long-term potential to trash the service with a myriad of legacy and obsolete languages instead of just one. So you just have to run faster to stay in the same place.