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Great satire. But I have seen teams of incredible engineers doing amazing things perfectly and still go out of business because its not how amazing your engineering is, it's how amazing your product or service is to people who are willing to pay (or someone is willing to pay you).
Publishing this on Google Docs is so passe, clearly should be on Substack or Ghost
>Had we had more funding, we would have taken the time to rewrite our app in Haskell instead. So close yet so far. Given the funding you need to rewrite your app in BOTH Haskell and Rust. Then depending on which one is in favor at launch time you go with that and never mention the other one. Then you look like a prophetic genius company no matter which way the market turns.
I get that this is satire, but leave Rust out of it. Rust is blameless when it comes to bad business ideas and execution. You shouldn't be scaring people away from a language that offers so much. Rust is not hard like all the dumb memes make it out to be. For startups where performance is vital (media, streaming), I'd argue it'll be indispensable [1]. The Rust bullying harms our community. We don't have the corporate…
This is the best part: "We rewrote our microservices from Node to Go to C++ and then back to Node."
I realize this is a joke, but regardless these days you basically need to spend ~25% of each year rewriting your app just to stay in security compliance.
If that's true, you should think about your architecture. It shouldn't require that level of effort.
This deserves its own chapter.