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> It does make it harder to maintain code for businesses, since keeping up with language updates means that you will have to do relatively more maintenance work
by yakshaving_jgt 5y ago
> It does make it harder to maintain code for businesses, since keeping up with language updates means that you will have to do relatively more maintenance work to keep up with these breaking changes.
To be honest — I think even in my 90KLOC Haskell codebase — handling these breaking changes are a cheap and easy change because of the compiler.
- SkyMarshal 5y agoYeah, refactoring the whole codebase in a language like Haskell is, maybe not trivial, but something the language lets you lean into, systematize, and make SOP.