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Paolo Lulli
Paolo Lulli

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Newer Solutions for Old Problems

You gave up your (professional) life to Enterprisey software ecosystems. You live and breathe a certain language, library or $deity forbid - framework.

Then you wake up one day and discover there is some new language that can give you, for a smaller cost in time and effort, exactly what you formerly needed and have built yourself with great effort.

The temptation of the rewrite is strong, but you need to resist: it's not worth at this point.

But it's still a good teaching. Be humble, some parts of the future can (hopefully) be better one day:

https://kevwe.com/weekly/202232

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