All of you who can't understand the concept of feature complete (see syncthing drama for example) find something useful to do. I promise it's out there.

[–] anugeshtu@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

The one thing which COULD justify it, is technical debt. A programming language not supported anymore or in short-term/mid-term, bus factor, too much knowledge transfer, etc. But yeah, lots of times it's "business as usual" just for "progress" and fancy buzzwords.

[–] Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 hours ago

Java is still supported... Or did I miss the memo?

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[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 12 points 17 hours ago

This is directly caused by squeezing promos down to making your skip level manager horny for the sound of your work instead of having any actual impact on what you are doing.

Its all such stupid horse shit.

"Why does X feature in Y app/game/device take so long??"

This is why

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 11 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I say this is only ok because he did that in amazon. Fuck amazon

If ge did that in a medium-or-less sized company that would be a really shitty move.

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[–] Berserker@programming.dev 10 points 10 hours ago

Flawless victory.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 hours ago

Honestly probably got the project to more maintainable state. Probably didn't need the rewrite to do it in a new lang to do it (the real killer hear it sounds like).

Those monoliths suck on the operations side, and even worse when it's a corpse holding up the foundation to other projects that actually need it to change. Need to scale? good luck that decades old pizza box we call a server isn't supported anymore. Oh of course we can spend millions virtualizing dead hardware to keep it running the same.

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