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Re:The New York Times Claws Its Way into the Future by jhbadger on Sunday February 12, 2017 @06:36PM (#13631866)
Why? I understand the holy wars between devotees of Rust and Go, but if anything I'm impressed that the NYT would actually look beyond 1990s languages.
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Re:The New York Times Claws Its Way into the Future by stephancoral on Sunday February 12, 2017 @08:14PM (#13632354)
Because it wasn't a widely-used language in the part of the org the decree applied to. It was purely chosen to seem cool and trendy and also because it's one of the higher ups favorite languages.
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