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Skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faster" languages

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160 points todsacerdoti | 6 comments | 20 Oct 24 21:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.393s | source | bottom
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simultsop ◴[21 Oct 24 05:20 UTC] No.41900896[source]▶
While the skeptical's stall in decision making, new comers who do not think twice about rewriting. Rewrite software on a smaller budget in experimental attempts. Then management decides to chose the cheaper option available, because lean startup is promising. Then in next 10 years the new comers become the new skepticals. I don't know if there's a case that this cycle is not repeated, at any time frame.
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1. gwerbret ◴[21 Oct 24 05:35 UTC] No.41900957[source]▶
I've read your comment several times and still don't know what it means. Can you clarify?
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2. strken ◴[21 Oct 24 05:58 UTC] No.41901064[source]▶
I've rewritten it for clarity: "While the skeptics stall in decision making, newcomers will not think twice about rewriting software on a smaller budget as an experiment. Then management will decide to choose the cheapest option available, because the lean startup was more competitive. Then in the next 10 years, the newcomers become the new skeptics. In my experience this cycle is always repeated, albeit across different time frames."

I made the difficult choice to rewrite it in English again, even though French might have been more performant.

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5. simultsop ◴[21 Oct 24 07:10 UTC] No.41901490[source]▶
Imagine developers as the choosing (management) part and if you are involved with webdev in last decade. Compare webpack and vite. As pricing parameter consider the time to bundle (faster=cheaper). So, what webpack did not do by not rewriting itself, vite came in offering.
6. simultsop ◴[21 Oct 24 07:12 UTC] No.41901502[source]▶
Thank you so much, you taught me how to express this "albeit across different time frames". It is difficult to use any language to simplify complex narrations.