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There's rarely a bullet point advantage that some new language or tech stack can offer me that would outweigh ten years of observation of how a familiar setup b
by gdulli 10mo ago
There's rarely a bullet point advantage that some new language or tech stack can offer me that would outweigh ten years of observation of how a familiar setup behaves in production, such that the space of unknown unknowns is reduced to almost nothing.
- simonw 10mo agoMy personal rule is that the new technology stack item needs to either make is possible for me to build something that I couldn't have built without it, or needs to provide a productivity boost significant enough to overcome the productivity lost by straying from the more familiar path - even harder for team projects where multiple people need to learn the new component.
- kayo_20211030 10mo agoYeah. I'm in agreement there. I guess that it's an application of The Law of Least Surprise for a future developer (who might actually be me, which it often is)