Re:Stop Making Students Use Eclipse (2020)
by kelnos on Sunday November 07, 2021 @12:46PM
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I don't really get why you seem to believe there are just two extremes and that's it. I don't think "do it right from day one" means that you never accumulate technical debt or that you write the perfect architecture that anticipates every possible future need.
Doing it right, to me, means hiring people who can adapt to changing conditions and needs, and who can make (or help you make) the right trade offs when you have to balance faster time-to-market (which can involve cutting corners) against avoiding technical debt.
The team that lives inside IntelliJ and can't do anything outside it is not going to do that for you.
Re:Stop Making Students Use Eclipse (2020)
by 2muchcoffeeman on Sunday November 07, 2021 @06:18PM
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>I don't really get why you seem to believe there are just two extremes and that's it.
Well, we’re only discussing a specific dimension of software development here. In reality there are a whole bunch of things not even related to software that will cause problems.
One wants to get things done to the exclusion of all else. Possibly trapping you into a corner if you need to ever scale.
And the other wants to “do it the right way from day one“. An undertaking that would cost more than a small business could ever hope to afford or slowing you down giving rivals time to catch up.