[julianlam]

That makes me sad to hear, because not only was this company left with an inferior solution, the man hours and effort that went into the original project (including purchasing part of the spectrum!) was essentially nullified.

It's an alarming trend among new grads as well, who see existing systems as bloated and in need of rewrites. Who would've thought the bloat was kind of important?

[scruffyherder]

But then we wouldn't have single threaded wonders like node.js

It's part of our culture that the young kids dismantle the 'old people stuff' setup their new stuff to only re-invent the wheel again and again, run into the same problems that were solved decades ago to only be repeated again.

Remember how TCL was going to save us all from K&R C? Then it was perl to save us from TCL? Then Ruby? Python? javascript, Go or whatever is the flavour of the month?

[XorNot]

Sure except you've managed to bitch about most major programming languages here without proposing any alternatives.

[salawat]

The poster's entire point was that all of them came from a desire to find another option when a reasonable alternative already existed.

[setpatchaddress]

The logical conclusion is that Ruby shouldn’t exist because shakes fist those darn kids should write all programs in C instead.

[fma]

I wouldn't argue that bloat is important. I wold argue don't let bean counters make technical decisions.

Unfortunately those bean counters probably got large raises and bonus. Then moved on to their next job proclaiming their victories and got out into higher positions.