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why is gcc used by people when llvm is obviously better? why is OpenBSD used when FreeBSD gets more eyeballs? Why do people still use Oracle rather than postgre
by ggm 11mo ago
why is gcc used by people when llvm is obviously better? why is OpenBSD used when FreeBSD gets more eyeballs? Why do people still use Oracle rather than postgres.
Why isn't justice equal everywhere, and all mankind strives to equalise for the pain and suffering?
Why does god let the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 happen?
Look: what a company uses, is what the initial tech staff bring to the table, or what future tech staff convert to, or what a C-suite enacts as a KPI before walking. It has almost nothing to do with "x is a better tool" and a hell of a lot more to do with "y cost me my job at fooco, I'm never recommending it again" or with "we get an SLA with z" or even "we can hire more juniors with competency if we continue to code in this dead language java because thats what the local college teaches in"
- dnlh_lvg 11mo agoYeah, I agree most tooling decisions come down to inertia, org history, and who was in the room early on. What I’m trying to tease out is whether there’s something specific to hard/deep tech that makes this even stickier. In my experience, the moment you’re dealing with hardware-defined timelines, shifting configs, shared facilities, or multi-org ops, Jira/Confluence fall over pretty fast and people end up juggling a pile of side spreadsheets and slides just to keep things aligned.