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Re:Salesforce Deal to Buy Slack Expected to Be Announced Tue... by troughway on Monday November 30, 2020 @05:05PM (#25259642)
Discord is an interesting case compared to Slack. Slack is, from my understanding anyway, built out in PHP. Fairly lingua franca for the web.

Discord, on the other hand, seems to have built a "technical moat" of sorts for themselves by using Erlang/Elixir and other non-standard tech. Suppose SF or a company like them were to acquire Discord. If and when the staff were to leave once their vesting period or whatever is over, who would take over the codebase from them?

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Re:Salesforce Deal to Buy Slack Expected to Be Announced Tue... by corytheboyd on Monday November 30, 2020 @05:18PM (#25259764)
In practice I’m not so sure I think that’s really a concern, especially for a company like Salesforce. They could probably just afford to let it stagnate while they dangle massive salaries in front of the few that could actually maintain the codebase. And it’s not like everyone would leave immediately after the acquisition... but definitely very soon after haha
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