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They announced that AngularJS was being rewritten in 2014 with no obvious migration path and didn't release Angular2 until 2016.

That was 2 years of "well, everything you write will be legacy"

I mean, prior to React the big Framework at the time was AngularJS 1 - a hellscape of two way data binding.

Talking about one-way data flows was an excellent way to speak to a lot of tortured souls at the time (who had just found out they were going to be forced to migrate their projects to something else anyway due to Google's absolutely insane "we're deprecating this, we'll have a replacement for it at... some point, good luck").

All of my EU friends living in the UK have now applied for citizenship.

The risk profile for "I have indefinite leave to remain" has moved from "this won't be an issue at all" to "we have no trust in the government on this" in a few short years.

Profoundly depressing

I've never quite forgiven python for the time I tried to update it using yum, it failed which is then broke yum - not a fun place to end up.

Treating python as a project level dependency rather than a system level dependency is just an excellent design choice.

The foundation is a very recent affair.

The real improvements all came from the hard work of the developers who were around during the 7.* releases who did excellent work.

Most importantly at that time we had Nikita Popov who was incredibly helpful.

Hack/HHVM definitely gave it a nice kick of motivation though.

My main beef with HCL is a hatred for how it implemented for loops.

Absolutely loathsome syntax IMO

I mean, it's asking kids if they want a ball of sugar - that does feel like a pretty sure thing.

It's a farsicle example as the bottleneck is getting the council to fix the potholes.

Experienced teams know to be careful and sparing with its use.

AWS charges instances in 1 hour increments - so you're paying 150% the EC2 costs if you're doing this every 2 hours

It must be horrible working for Automattic at the moment having to deal with this seemingly never ending farce.