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Reading the article it's hard to deduce what the author is talking about developing, what type of software, is it a web application, is it a systems application

by jijji 3y ago

Reading the article it's hard to deduce what the author is talking about developing, what type of software, is it a web application, is it a systems application, is it some parallel processing application that requires multi-threaded code?! but when looking it appears he's talking about web application development because of the mention of Ruby on rails.... also the use of the word scalability to describe readability of code doesn't make a whole lot of sense. also, the reference of programming languages misses the most commonly used ones (php), which are used for mainly web development, and are primarily the easiest to develop.. obviously if we're talking about systems level application development then yeah rust and go makes sense but if we're talking about web application development then I think that they take a lot of time to develop an application in and then although it can be done it's not that popular compared to other ways of doing it.

nyrikki 3y ago
Same thoughts...but the authors definition of "scalability" seems to relate to making employees disposable and enabling cross team collaboration. Bu that definition Java is probably the best just due to it's presence in teaching and while I prefer python, better threading support ... but I do look forward to the rise of LOGO!!! ? FORWARD 20 ? RIGHT 90 ? FORWARD 20 ? HIDETURTLE ? (Really items like the available talent pool and what languages align best with business needs are better metrics, I'll put on my flame proof pants and say language choice is an architecturally insignificant implementation detail outside of concerns like the above)
dclowd9901 3y ago
An experienced engineer will tell you: it doesn’t matter what software. It doesn’t even matter what kind of application. Actually, it doesn’t matter what it is at all. Keeping things simple keeps them scalable. Cleverness and magic are antithetical to that goal.

by jijji 3y ago

nyrikki 3y ago

Same thoughts...but the authors definition of "scalability" seems to relate to making employees disposable and enabling cross team collaboration. Bu that definition Java is probably the best just due to it's presence in teaching and while I prefer python, better threading support ... but I do look forward to the rise of LOGO!!! ? FORWARD 20 ? RIGHT 90 ? FORWARD 20 ? HIDETURTLE ? (Really items like the available talent pool and what languages align best with business needs are better metrics, I'll put on my flame proof pants and say language choice is an architecturally insignificant implementation detail outside of concerns like the above)

dclowd9901 3y ago

An experienced engineer will tell you: it doesn’t matter what software. It doesn’t even matter what kind of application. Actually, it doesn’t matter what it is at all. Keeping things simple keeps them scalable. Cleverness and magic are antithetical to that goal.