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Re:Making the move from Scala to Go by jiaweihli on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @02:03AM (#13479354)
Unfortunately sole code ownership increases the bus factor.
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Re:Making the move from Scala to Go by lacampbell on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @02:13AM (#13479396)
Why? The code is still there even when a person leaves.
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Re:Making the move from Scala to Go by enqk on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @02:33AM (#13479493)
Code is really hard to work with without the theory that surrounds it, and is alive in the people who worked on it.

Peter Naur - Programming As Theory Building http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf

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Re:Making the move from Scala to Go by lacampbell on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @03:14PM (#13485545)
Legacy shitcode is legacy shitcode. If it's owned by someone at least we can push for a sane interface, which is better than the abandoned communal messes I encounter in the real world.
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Re:Making the move from Scala to Go by enqk on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @02:15AM (#13538979)
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