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Re:Discipline Doesn’t Scale by imoverclocked on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @03:57AM (#24845680)
... or reduce software engineering salaries. Arguably, people want faster software if they also want faster hardware.
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Re:Discipline Doesn’t Scale by pizza234 on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @04:15AM (#24845776)
Well, consider Slack as an example.

Performance-wise, it's bottom of the barrel quality. A single developer has done, in this compartment (Ripcord), much better than their team did. If we want to consider similar languages, Microsoft did enormously better with VSC.

The result is, sadly, that Slack is still widely used.

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