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If that was the case dynamic languages would be non-starters. Believe it or not there are a lot of businesses, some quite large, which have been chugging along
by cutler 4y ago
If that was the case dynamic languages would be non-starters. Believe it or not there are a lot of businesses, some quite large, which have been chugging along quite nicely on PHP or Ruby for over a decade. HKTs may be fun to play with but let's get them in perspective as nice-to-haves.
- lmm 4y ago> Believe it or not there are a lot of businesses, some quite large, which have been chugging along quite nicely on PHP or Ruby for over a decade. Sure, and they either follow extraordinary development practices, or they have outages basically all the time (e.g. the famous Twitter "fail whale"). Like I said, in some lines of work (probably far more than people on HN would like to think, frankly) you can get away with that.