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   Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him) (ovid@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 19:30:22 JST Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him)

   When I worked for the #BBC, they had too many programming languages and it made it harder for devs to switch teams.

   They instituted the "Atlas" project. All front-end code in #PHP and all backend code in #Java

   Devs were NOT happy. However, the BBC screwed up. Backend code required a JAR file and devs quickly realized that plenty of great languages can produce JAR files, so several teams switched to anything but Java.

   I wonder if Atlas was a success.

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     phiofx (phiofx@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 19:30:22 JST phiofx

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     @ovid interesting that php was considered front-end. I wonder what a proper labelling of the different layers of the stack would look like. Client-side front end, server-side front-end and server-side back-end is already awkward and its barely descriptive...