null is the billion dollar mistake. Trying to rewrite everything into a language without null is the trillion dollar mistake.
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They don't measure the drain on features caused by literally going backwards. To be clear we rewrote stuff into Rust at
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... I'm not completely against this kind of thing, but the customer value has to be large and *very concrete*, not in your head.
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What if this is already due to technical debt and could have been avoided if rewritten earlier?
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People overweigh the expected benefits.https://twitter.com/wycats/status/910638231422513153 …
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It's about balance. Piling features onto an architecture that can't handle it is as bad idea as rewriting with no real features planned.
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But instead look at likely features to come and deciding what architecture changes are crucial vs just nice-to-have, that's engineering
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Yes. I'm calling out a rewrite bias that causes people to balance architecture improvements too highly.
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Great thing about being a consultant is you learn how much of the shiny internet runs on duct tape and paper clips. Boy, I've seen things...
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