Inside the longest Atlassian outage

Re:Inside the longest Atlassian outage by hhmc on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @02:49PM (#31018616)

> The idea is that by supporting the largest number of features possible, they'll surely build something that everyone likes because it will tick everyone's boxes.

The idea that the C++ committee are unthinking people pleasers it patently false.

C++ does have a lot of cruft, but mostly because it aims to: i) support new features ii) maintain pretty strong backward compatibility guarantees

In general the new features are actually pretty well liked, but in conjunction with (ii) it creates a big language. There's a reasonably decent subset that can be carved out, but it's also clear why newcomers without legacy baggage (e.g. rust) are making inroads.

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Re:Inside the longest Atlassian outage by throwaway894345 on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @03:51PM (#31019412)

"unthinking people pleasers" isn't how I would characterize it; rather, I think of it more as a "kitchen sink" or "more is more" philosophy rather than a "less is more" philosophy. I'm sure the committee deliberated extensively, but deliberation within their particular philosophical context still produced an unpleasant result. I think the same is true of JIRA.

EDIT: clarified wording a bit.

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