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Re:NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract by bostand on Saturday July 01, 2017 @01:27PM (#14677983)
I beg to differ.

Have your ever tried to maintain a large js project? It gets harder the bigger the codebase gets.

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Re:NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract by brianleb on Saturday July 01, 2017 @08:35PM (#14680015)
Is there an alternate universe where this is not true? Where things get simpler while they get more complex?
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Re:NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract by CydeWeys on Sunday July 02, 2017 @01:28PM (#14683416)
He's saying that it gets proportionally more harder to manage a large codebase in JS than it does in statically typed languages like Java. This has been my experience as well.
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Re:NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract by thesz on Sunday July 02, 2017 @04:59PM (#14684310)
Erlang, for one example.

Read about AXD 301 development.

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Re:NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract by CydeWeys on Saturday July 01, 2017 @01:33PM (#14678012)
That's absolutely been my experience too.
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