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> Search your heart, do you think this story ends similarly if they decide to all do "modern C++" instead?

It sounds to me they already had a good chunk of it written in C++ with python glueing it all together.

From a ‘dev velocity’ standpoint one would think having the senior devs learn a new language and rewrite an entire database wouldn’t make sense when they could just systematically replace the python parts with C++, which they already knew.

Or, who knows, maybe all their initial issues stemmed from the locations of semicolons around the else keyword?



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