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what we are actually seeing is people blindly reinventing things that were known in the 1970s

Or people who have worked exclusively in web development and for a relatively short time suddenly discovering general programming knowledge, like why modularity and separation of concerns are important, or that being able to write prototype code and get it into production quickly doesn't necessarily mean that code will be maintainable or support the same pace of development over the long term.

Next week, if you do everything in a dynamic-everything language using a dynamic-everything framework with everything looked up at runtime from a database, your software will be slow. The idea that a simple blog site running on a modern server should have to worry about hitting the front page of an aggregator and then falling over because it got a few thousand visitors in the next hour is rather absurd, if you stop and think about how much processing power and raw bandwidth these modern systems actually have available.




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