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what happens when those devs who chose some new language leave? Who gets stuck with all that code?

• Revell 12y ago
  That's a good reason to have shared responsibility of code. There is no one owner of a codebase, an entire team should own the code. An entire team leaving at once seems highly unlikely.
  • davidw 12y ago
    Yeah, but that's harder when everyone knows Erlang, and one guy goes off and writes something with, say, Django for fun.
    • joevandyk 12y ago
      Pair programming comes in handy here.
    • Revell 12y ago
      But if someone goes "lone wolf" and writes an application in a language he or she chose without informing other members of the team/organisation something else might be going wrong in the chain. I get the idea you're trying to convey here but in the case of a well-organised team/organisation that won't really fly as everyone will be involved at some point and choices are being made together.