Comment by rangerelf
7 hours ago
I kind of object to this take.
Nobody's talking about porting billions of lines of code, for all we know it's just for personal projects, or a learning experience.
This kind of replies is like killing an idea before it's even started, smells like the sunk cost fallacy.
OTOH I do understand the weight of a currently existing corpus in production, evidence is the ton of COBOL code still running. But still, your reply kind of sucks.
> Nobody's talking about porting billions of lines of code, for all we know it's just for personal projects, or a learning experience.
am i the only person in the room that can read tone? please tell me what is the force of this statement in what i've responded:
> If you want static compilation, use a language and libraries built with that assumption as a ground rule.
is this an imperative only for hobbyists? not sure.
> This kind of replies is like killing an idea before it's even started, smells like the sunk cost fallacy.
there is no idea - that's exactly my whole point. tear it down and build it again is not an idea.