Why and How We Retired Elm at Culture Amp

Re:Why and How We Retired Elm at Culture Amp by throwawaymaths on Saturday April 08, 2023 @05:05PM (#35497621)

I mean it depends, right? There are several technologies out there that are fantastic because they are less annoying, have fewer footguns, easy to debug, easy to read, good tooling (docs, tests, package management), and respect the programmer's sanity. Is it wrong to only want to work with such systems? If some company rejects me because I'm a tech stack fanboy without asking and understanding why I care about the stacks that I do, that means they don't respect my sanity. Hate to say it, but most "boring" technologies with a legacy from, say, pre-2000-ish, cared zero about those things.

So, great. Buh-bye.

Nb: many technologies post-2k also don't care about those things. So yeah, don't be shiny new on those either.

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Re:Why and How We Retired Elm at Culture Amp by wpietri on Sunday April 09, 2023 @01:13AM (#35500225)

Sure, but you're now evaluating the technology in business terms. That's very different than somebody who loves the ideas of a language. I don't want to start a language war, so I won't name one. But consider all the developers who were very excited about "blockchain" not because it improved anything practical for their projects, but because it was a hot concept.

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Re:Why and How We Retired Elm at Culture Amp by throwawaymaths on Sunday April 09, 2023 @11:37AM (#35503728)

The point is there are languages where the "ideas" of the language are these "business" ideas. Technical choices can also lead to good/bad developer ergonomics.

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Re:Why and How We Retired Elm at Culture Amp by wpietri on Sunday April 09, 2023 @08:20PM (#35507782)

Do you really believe that there's an experienced developer who doesn't believe, "Technical choices can also lead to good/bad developer ergonomics"? Maybe try assuming I already know the basics of the field.

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