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I was surprised to find this published on begin.com, which offers an app deployment platform based on AWS Lambda. So are Lambda, API Gateway, and friends considered boring now?
They may not be, but cgi-bin, webservers, and monitoring via grep /var/log/www/*.log are.
Weirdly enough I do believe Clojure ticks the boxes from that checklist. It's familiar in that it both "supports popular language runtimes" (runs on top of the JVM or transpiles to JavaScript) and it's a Lisp dialect (or close enough) and Lisps have been around since a very long time. It's incredibly stable: so stable some libraries commonly used haven't been updated in years . There's also very little code churn ins…
How about hiring though? If you have a vacancy for a Clojure developer, how many applicants could you expect? When it comes to programming languages, I'd stick to the top 10 languages if your company isn't hip enough to attract a certain kind of developer on its own.
Valid point anyway
What about between 2 boring technologies? For example I’m debating between Eleventy and Hugo (because I know both JS and Go, but not Ruby so I will skip Jekyll)
Pick the one that gets you up and running the fastest, ideally one that doesn't rely on you installing additional runtimes.
What about between 2 boring technologies? For example I’m debating between Eleventy and Hugo (because I know both JS and Go, but not Ruby so I will skip Jekyll)
I recently started experimenting with Snowpack for JS build. I realized it doesn’t do sourcemaps very will so I grabbed Parcel. That worked great but doesn’t have a testing story and Vite has a couple options there. Vite has been good.
It was work to evaluate each of those and switch between them. But not that much work really since I hadn’t committed a huge codebase yet. But it was worth it because now I know why you might choose one over the other.
Granted the “boring” choice would be Webpack.
Dunno where the staging server came from
https://blog.begin.com/posts/2022-01-27-the-boring-technolog...
Another good extension to the topic would also be defining when Boring Technology becomes Ancient Technology. You need to hit that middle of the tech curve where it's understood and stable but also still being maintained and keeping up with modern needs.
Weirdly enough I do believe Clojure ticks the boxes from that checklist. It's familiar in that it both "supports popular language runtimes" (runs on top of the JVM or transpiles to JavaScript) and it's a Lisp dialect (or close enough) and Lisps have been around since a very long time. It's incredibly stable: so stable some libraries commonly used haven't been updated in years . There's also very little code churn ins…
How about hiring though? If you have a vacancy for a Clojure developer, how many applicants could you expect? When it comes to programming languages, I'd stick to the top 10 languages if your company isn't hip enough to attract a certain kind of developer on its own.
What about between 2 boring technologies? For example I’m debating between Eleventy and Hugo (because I know both JS and Go, but not Ruby so I will skip Jekyll)
Flip a coin, try the first one out, and if anything pops up in a few days that makes you think the other might be more suitable, evaluate the other one. I recently started experimenting with Snowpack for JS build. I realized it doesn’t do sourcemaps very will so I grabbed Parcel. That worked great but doesn’t have a testing story and Vite has a couple options there. Vite has been good. It was work to evaluate each of…