Language wars actually leave us even more exposed to the risk-averse businessmen who come in and say, “Everyone has to use Java” and make all of us unhappy. After a company falls into a healthy FUD-loaded language war, The Business decides that all of these options just sound horrible and default to “the standard”, regardless of whether it’s the right choice.
It’s like mixing all your Play-Doh colors together and getting an ugly brown. Enough tech wars, and decisions stop being made by technologists at all.
Well that would have been useful in the previous Go/Haskell flame war.
For a moment, I thought that was another example of an oversold language feature.
Language wars actually leave us even more exposed to the risk-averse businessmen who come in and say, “Everyone has to use Java” and make all of us unhappy. After a company falls into a healthy FUD-loaded language war, The Business decides that all of these options just sound horrible and default to “the standard”, regardless of whether it’s the right choice.
It’s like mixing all your Play-Doh colors together and getting an ugly brown. Enough tech wars, and decisions stop being made by technologists at all.