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0 pointsscarmig8y ago0 comments

Although I'm skeptical about the 1 to 3 ratio, let's run with it.

Given a million line codebase written in Perl vs a three million line codebase written in Go, which do you think most engineers would prefer?

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Honestly the Ruby or Python one, but I've never seen them because you don't need a million lines in Ruby or Python to get something productive built.

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0 pointsscarmig8y ago0 comments

Although I'm skeptical about the 1 to 3 ratio, let's run with it.

Given a million line codebase written in Perl vs a three million line codebase written in Go, which do you think most engineers would prefer?

Honestly the Ruby or Python one, but I've never seen them because you don't need a million lines in Ruby or Python to get something productive built.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse