if you sell software you know about the dreaded security questionnaire
certain architecture can lower the burden of this by 10x and help close more deals faster
the fact that this never comes up in "you should just use _____" convos tells you everything you need to know
My best guess: Rust got people thinking, I want a lang
- with useful types (no Python/C)
- not neutered (no Go)
- has regular state (no Haskell)
- isn't legacy-warped (no Scala)
- doesn't cause pain when you don't need it (no Rust)
and that leaves…
Is that it?
Company: "We're agile."
5 minutes later...
Company: "It's time for quarterly PI planning, so all teams need to agree on what they'll do in the next 3 months."
I've read multiple times that Reddit 1.0 was written in Lisp. I didn't realize the source is public.
It's amazing. You can read the whole thing in one sitting. Even an undergrad could. It's like the essence of a…Reddit.
We took a wrong turn w/ software.
https://t.co/GHxoRVFrdH