How we failed, then succeeded, at migrating to TypeScript

Re:How we failed, then succeeded, at migrating to TypeScript by davidjnelson on Sunday October 13, 2019 @03:53PM (#21242512)

> The most important realisation we had going into this renewed effort was that a successful migration has to be centered around people, not just tech.

Key insight. It’s always people first, code is a far distant second. Love Kent Beck’s series on this, so insightful https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/software-design-is-human-r...

Great read, Heap team! Thanks for sharing :-D

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Re:How we failed, then succeeded, at migrating to TypeScript by EdwardDiego on Monday October 14, 2019 @12:50AM (#21245339)

I routinely bore people with the Abelson quote that programs are written for humans to read and only incidentally for computers to execute.

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Re:How we failed, then succeeded, at migrating to TypeScript by pointerpointer on Sunday October 13, 2019 @08:43PM (#21244362)

> It’s always people first, code is a far distant second.

I'm afraid that's kinda political. In order to get the migration successful, hmm.. I assume developers did not have much of a choice, either accept it or leave. You can try to brainwash them by impose your subjective point of view in a friendly way, but in the end it's all about power, that's the untold story.

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