Post #3068956

@mitchellh@hachyderm.io there are so many different crazy things people believe now, almost implicitly. The big one I keep thinking about is that people just seem to think code longevity has zero value any more. Like, we always knew code that doesn’t change for a long time is maybe a bad sign, that it is rotting. But it is also a good sign that it is likely more stable, secure, and valuable than new code. But so many people now just seem to think it is always a good thing to be able to change any code any time. They don’t talk about the gradual hardening that is no longer happening, or the ability for other parts of the system to evolve more because this part is so stable. I assume that over time our industry will learn how to talk coherently and intelligently about all this. But we’re obviously a long ways from there, and there’s a lot of destruction going to happen between then and now.