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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by eadmund on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @08:01PM (#16541392)
> I think "team software engineering" plays a big part of this, if not even the main reason.

You're not wrong, but perhaps that's an indication that software companies should use language & environments which enable them to have fewer developers, and enable those developers to keep track of things like resource usage?

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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by badosu on Thursday March 08, 2018 @12:15PM (#16545835)
I think the point godot meant to convey is that modern software development practices disincentivize polishing and refactoring features for performance, as developers move around the application all the time; regardless of programming language.

Whereas traditionally you would have an engineer responsible for part of the application as time goes by, making sure that it works better while maintaining quality.

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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by arbie on Thursday March 08, 2018 @12:14PM (#16545808)
But then you end up with code sprints solely to optimize resource usage, handled by programmers that didn't code the original module(s). Inefficiencies get layered over inefficiencies.
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