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Aside from the idea of charting random developers' gut instincts regarding entire programming languages, the only contribution this article makes to the literat
by stonogo 4y ago
Aside from the idea of charting random developers' gut instincts regarding entire programming languages, the only contribution this article makes to the literature is the dubious phrase "scalability of innovation." I would have appreciated some honesty regarding why they're really sticking with Rails at Gitlab: a decade worth of development that would have to be rewritten from scratch to little discernable benefit.
- mooreds 4y ago> I would have appreciated some honesty regarding why they're really sticking with Rails at Gitlab: a decade worth of development that would have to be rewritten from scratch to little discernable benefit. This is an underappreciated value of sticking with a current solution. You know the warts. You know the issues. You have significant sunk costs. The value of moving to a new solution has to be really really high, because there are always surprises when doing so (business logic that you didn't account for, edge cases that only occur once in a blue moon).