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Re:Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of m... by 2ion on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @08:03AM (#27117040)
> $132,000 is almost double my salary is the UK. They could easily get 2 full time UK devs for that, or even more in many EU countries with lower cost of living

Yes, but in EU a common problem is, good developers are not worth more because the companies are unable to make use of IT to justify a higher price. It's a bunch of ossified tech laggers, not tech leaders, that employs developers in much of the EU. They only need 2nd rate people to handle what US tech puts on the market.

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Re:Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of m... by rightbyte on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @08:53AM (#27117470)
Babel is an complex perpetual maintenance solution to bad engineering in the first place. I'd rather be a "ossified tech lagger" then having to deal with that.
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Re:Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of m... by nsonha on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @03:00AM (#27127522)
could you elaborate what is bad engineering? It's one thing to say babel is no longer a critical tool, it's another thing to say that it's "bad engineering"
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Re:Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of m... by rightbyte on Thursday May 13, 2021 @05:40AM (#27140302)
The browser compibatility mess. I did not mean to say Babel is bad engineering, but a solution to the problem of bad engineering.
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Re:Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of m... by nicoburns on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @08:42AM (#27117373)
Alternatively, there's just more VC money in the US.
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