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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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