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Don't listen to hype. Look at the problems you need to solve. If you need a big, complex, distributed system, than maybe microservices are a good idea. If you're building a simple webapp... not so much. Things that work in the large don't necessarily work in the small.

I write stuff in Scheme. I'm a hobbyist, there's no reason for me not to, and I love the language. The apps I write are sometimes single-threaded (or coroutine-based) monoliths. But I only have one machine available for me, and the things I'm writing are fairly simple. It's good ENOUGH. And Worse really is Better[1].

1:and I truly mean that in the Gabriel sense. As in the New Jersey model. Not any other way.



For people who do not know what "Worse is Better" means, here's the link: https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html


WTF is at that link? It's NSFW...




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