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0 pointstaeric4y ago0 comments

That is possible with all languages. I've seen java, scala, clojure, perl, python, etc.

Usually this is made worse by bespoke build tools and optimizations that make the system punishing to pick up.

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You've seen a case where someone wrote something in Python that later devs could not understand and then rewrote it in . . . what? And you've seen that with Java?

There's a big difference between a developer going off and writing something in one of the top five most used languages in the world and doing so in Scala.

lostcolony4y ago

Both are strange and alien to Javascript developers, who can be full stack.

Python may seem simple once you know it, but going in blind there's plenty of traps to bite you. Significant whitespace for one.

chrsig4y ago

I think there's two different issues:

1. picking a language/tool that a company doesn't have personnel with experience using it

2. picking a language/tool that is esoteric, which generally implies #1 as well.

#1 on its own isn't great, but generally when sticking in the java/python/ruby/javascript/php/etc...mainstream languages, there's a lot more documentation, and there's a higher chance that _someone_ in the company will have some familiarity. If nothing else, it'd be easier to hire a replacement for.

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taericOP4y ago

Yes. I've seen and contributed to dumpster fires in all of those languages. I would love to say it was all some rogue developer that crapped on things, but it is often just new developers. The more, the more damage.

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