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Re:How Uber Uses Zig by throwaway2037 on Monday May 23, 2022 @09:55AM (#31479083)
It helps senior purchasing managers to defend their decision to even more senior managers (many non-technical) to pay a relative unknown name a biggish sum of money for their product (or support).
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Re:How Uber Uses Zig by traceroute66 on Monday May 23, 2022 @10:16AM (#31479317)
> It helps senior purchasing managers to defend their decision to ....

Ah yes. The famous "Nobody got fired for buying IBM" school of purchasing.

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Re:How Uber Uses Zig by KerrAvon on Monday May 23, 2022 @02:26PM (#31483057)
Even so, plenty of people were still willing to buy from established IBM competitors during that era. There's a difference between that and buying from someone no one in the C-suite has ever heard of, which is where `zig` is currently.
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