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Re:Best Programming Language – John Carmack and Lex Fridman by cyclotron3k on Monday August 15, 2022 @07:01AM (#32468141)
Disagree. Worst case scenario, you end up with a bunch of microservices, written in a hundred different esoteric languages and maintained by nobody because the authors long since left the company.

As usual, there's a balance to be struck. Only the Sith deal in absolutes

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Re:Best Programming Language – John Carmack and Lex Fridman by yrgulation on Monday August 15, 2022 @09:26AM (#32469360)
> As usual, there's a balance to be struck.

Agreed, and indeed i have seen projects ending up as flying spaghetti monsters due to too many microservices. Nonetheless i wont write a web api in c++ nor a gpgu kernel in nodejs. Tho maybe i should try both just for weekend fun. hmm. Imagine js’s map function as a little kernel.

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