Comment by paddim8

21 hours ago

I am all for minimalism but "If you come from one codebase to another codebase by a different team it’s close to learning a completely new language" I really don't agree. It's not that big. Just sounds like a skill issue

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adjejmxbdjdn  15 hours ago

Sure. Maybe it was a skill Issue.

I switched between dozens of similar codebases over a period of 3-4 years (pre AI) when I was consulting and did multiple projects in multiple languages (well, only 1 in rust).

In my experience switching between the C# projects was always the worst. The codebase semantics diverged in ways I simply didn’t see in the Java/C++ codebases.

  • metaltyphoon  6 hours ago

    > C++ codebases

    Now this one sounds almost unbelievable :). I’ve yet to see 3 or more C++ codebases using the same language feature set.