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CipherThrowaway on March 3, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Python keeps growing, explained

Totally agree. That's why I clarified:

> I'm sure Rust was the wrong tool for the job in your case but I find this type of get shit done argument unpersuasive in general.

Unless you're working on a fire-and-forget project with a tiny time horizon get shit done arguments are blatantly short-termist.

cwyers on March 3, 2023 [–]

The thing is that the short term is much easier to predict what you're going to need and where the value is, and in the long term you might not even work on this codebase anymore. Lot of incentives to get things done in the short term.

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