A bit of a tangent but this might be somewhat illuminating: I worked for a big utility company. They needed some economic analysis done on where to best put some transport pipes into the ground, macro granularity (eg smallest unit was a neighborhood).
The team that did the analysis apparently did a great job, so additional requirements were thrown their way: a frontend and an interactive planning module on designing the pipe networks on micro level (smallest unit was a single house)
A year later the absolute maniacs delivered the application. They only knew R and some html/js, so that's what they used.
Cursed as fuck of course, and because they were external they left short after. This was pretty bad for the people left holding the bag; I mostly found it awe inspiring in the "doom running on an electric toothbrush" kinda sense.
The team that did the analysis apparently did a great job, so additional requirements were thrown their way: a frontend and an interactive planning module on designing the pipe networks on micro level (smallest unit was a single house)
A year later the absolute maniacs delivered the application. They only knew R and some html/js, so that's what they used.
Cursed as fuck of course, and because they were external they left short after. This was pretty bad for the people left holding the bag; I mostly found it awe inspiring in the "doom running on an electric toothbrush" kinda sense.