Re:Green vs. Brown Programming Languages
by HWR_14 on Thursday April 22, 2021 @03:45PM
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> A language that is touted as "difficult to learn" and "difficult to onboard" is by definition not built for maintaining.
I disagree. The things that make for good maintenance correlate with both difficulty to learn and difficulty to onboard. (The converse is not true.) Things that are easily to learn tend to be easy to start with, but end up tacking on, via frameworks or coding standards, pieces that raise both difficulty to learn and to onboard as complex projects exist.
Specifically, maintenance requires thinking like the person or people who initially created the code. The more your thinking aligns with them, the easier it is to maintain. And that act of changing to think like them is learning and onboarding.
I disagree. The things that make for good maintenance correlate with both difficulty to learn and difficulty to onboard. (The converse is not true.) Things that are easily to learn tend to be easy to start with, but end up tacking on, via frameworks or coding standards, pieces that raise both difficulty to learn and to onboard as complex projects exist.
Specifically, maintenance requires thinking like the person or people who initially created the code. The more your thinking aligns with them, the easier it is to maintain. And that act of changing to think like them is learning and onboarding.