One thing we're going to have to stop externalizing is the cost of change.
The degree of fragmentation, required effort to upkeep etc. all to 'keep up' to a platform offering 'neat' features we don't care about?
Too costly.
We are not accounting for this yet, as soon as you take a second to think in at least 6-year time horizons, it starts to sink in.
It's funny because I used to love 'new tech', and now I'm instinctively against it, knowing nothing about it other than 'not standard' is enough to make me feel the amount of extra labour required to deal with it. I like movements such as 'Rust' whereby we see a legit challenger to a foundational tech, but with enough enthusiasm and long term vision that one day, it will be a possible 'off the shelf choice'.
The degree of fragmentation, required effort to upkeep etc. all to 'keep up' to a platform offering 'neat' features we don't care about?
Too costly.
We are not accounting for this yet, as soon as you take a second to think in at least 6-year time horizons, it starts to sink in.
It's funny because I used to love 'new tech', and now I'm instinctively against it, knowing nothing about it other than 'not standard' is enough to make me feel the amount of extra labour required to deal with it. I like movements such as 'Rust' whereby we see a legit challenger to a foundational tech, but with enough enthusiasm and long term vision that one day, it will be a possible 'off the shelf choice'.