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Re:Why We Chose Rails to Build Gitlab by darkr on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @04:46PM (#18972878)
I used to hate Java, but years of experience later, I would gladly inherit a well maintained/architected and modern Java codebase over anything written in Python or Ruby (even a well maintained one)
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Re:Why We Chose Rails to Build Gitlab by postalrat on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @04:50PM (#18972914)
So the only thing you would trade ruby or python for is something that doesn't exist.
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Re:Why We Chose Rails to Build Gitlab by darkr on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @06:59PM (#18974202)
Oh but it does. And even when it’s not great, it’s usually a less horrendous task to refactor into something better.
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Re:Why We Chose Rails to Build Gitlab by zbentley on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @07:10PM (#18974295)
That, actually, is one of the the largest selling points of Java as a platform: when it's bad, it's not that bad, and even when it is, the tools to clean it up are better than anyone else's.
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