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Re:Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About Programming Languages by asveikau on Monday November 03, 2025 @09:55PM (#45806994)
> rewriting a product only to change programming language is _always_ a bad idea,

There are of course a few scenarios where changing the programming language is a more defensible, less "always wrong" kind of thing. An extreme case would be something like a COBOL system that needs maintenance and you have trouble finding people who can do it.

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Re:Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About Programming Languages by FuckButtons on Monday November 03, 2025 @10:31PM (#45807181)
Or if you’ve written the mvp in python and realize you have to meet some performance metric that is 100x what your system is capable of.
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Re:Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About Programming Languages by roguecoder on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @01:26PM (#45814234)
It is bizarre how popular Python is for a language that is as poorly operationalized and encourages such poor architecture choices.

I would argue that the number of successful companies with Python code bases is the best evidence that language choice doesn't matter.

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