[Yoric]

If your memory is good, I'm impressed.

> It did take quite a bit of discipline, but with a skilled team it really wasn't all that hard.

Out of curiosity, what was the turnover within the team? My personal experience is that static typing helps a lot when you're new to a codebase. Probably less so when everybody can recite the architecture in their sleep.

[kybernetikos]

The turnover didn't start increasing until the 'javascript ecosystem' developed, and suddenly everyone wished that they were following the new community developed practices rather than the ones we'd be following for years. That lead to lots of factionalism within the team and a lot of unhappiness on all sides.