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by googlryas
1317 days ago
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Why would you need to switch off immediately? You can still use the version you're using in perpetuity with the license you agreed to. If the main developer died, would you feel the need to immediately switch off of it? Is anyone even tracking the liveliness of the developer in your org? |
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It is a commodity (there are other linkers), and the main reason to use it is developer productivity. Using a fast, bitrotting and unsupported linker is worse than using a slow, up-to-date linker.
We'd probably wait one release cycle to switch (maybe the replacement linker introduces bugs or something.)
Having said that, there is a clear line from "linking is 5x faster" to $10-100K annual savings for the business, so I'd support paying a substantial license fee. (I do not hold the purse strings, so that doesn't matter in my current gig.)