Twitter Shifting More Code to JVM, Citing Performance and Encapsulation
I like this. I recall a startup some years back with a vision to build something complex. The founder sat down with everyone and said that we had an important decision to make: Do we build something that grows or do we build something that evolves?<p>Neither way forward was presented as an obvious win. Building something that grows meant overengineering and trying to forecast the future. Building something that evolves meant constantly rewriting things, taking time away from new development.<p>Twitter seems to have taken the "evolution" route, and it has served them well. I'm not at all sure they would be this successful if they'd tried to build on the JVM right from the start using the technologies available at the time.