null is the billion dollar mistake. Trying to rewrite everything into a language without null is the trillion dollar mistake.
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Replying to @wycats
I'm trying to understand what you mean. "People should come to grips with null" or "_Don't_ throw the first one away?"
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Replying to @bmakuh
The latter. And null was just mostly a joke. People should do less rewriting "for architecture" and write more features for customers.
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Replying to @wycats
I guess that feels like a false dichotomy to me. If you don't start with a solid foundation, it eventually becomes hard to add new features.
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This is the exact mistake I'm talking about. People spend literally years on rewrites, slowing feature dev to a crawl.
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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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