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If you're an enterprise (including startups), you worry about customers, not code quality. There are famously many startups that gained traction despite shit co
by satvikpendem 4mo ago
If you're an enterprise (including startups), you worry about customers, not code quality. There are famously many startups that gained traction despite shit code and then eventually got around to fixing it, to whatever extent was possible, like Facebook HHVM, Stripe's Sorbet, etc.
- wonnage 4mo ago[dead]
- watwut 4mo agoStartups failed because they cound not untangle own code after 4 months. Literally true stories (plural).
- satvikpendem 4mo agoThere are orders of magnitude that failed because they did not solve the right customer problem. Code quality is merely incidental the vast majority of the time.
- lelanthran 4mo ago> Startups failed because they cound not untangle own code after 4 months. That's rare, though. If they could not untangle their own code after 4 months, it's because they were not making enough money to pay a team to untangle it - that's not a code problem, it's a revenue problem. IOW, the startup failed because their revenue was too low.