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by rdtsc 3637 days ago
> Rarely anyone "needs to scale."

Agree, and I say it as an Erlang full-time dev. Chances are you don't need 9 9s reliability and super scalability.

I've heard and seen cases of companies rewriting stuff unnecessarily due to some incompetent people following latest fads. "Oh I read Python has the GIL so we need to switch to Go. Saw on HN everyone is switching" -- cue years wasted in rewriting and destabilizing a solid usable code base.