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From what I can gather the old CTO did some things that were...less than ethical.

As far as the code goes, they wrote a custom DB that is O(nm) when counting tables---that is, it must count every record in the DB to count how many tables there are.

(Incidentally, I had forgotten this the other day and tried to do a "quick" table count...oops!)

I don't know Elixir or TS well enough to say if we have Ex/ts problems---from what I can tell:

- Elixir seems alright, I'd love to learn what the BEAM magic I keep hearing about is

- however, syntactically I find it pretty garbage, or at least uninspired. (Note that I am a spoiled Clojure guy and have this reaction to Python, Ruby, etc. I acknowledge people can get productive work done in them.)

- TS I have ha-ha-kinda-seriously trauma about from a previous job. I'm not a good person to ask here b/c I'm pretty firmly pro-dynamic in the Type wars. I will say that it is pretty freaking great to be able to have an emacs buffer open w/a repl to the cljs frontend we have for other apps, and that I really miss it whenever I have to go through the ts code.




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