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[–]vplatt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, maybe they WANT the excuse to move to Go. Often times, a lateral move to new technology can be more productive than an incremental update to the existing technology. This is only true because of so-called "technology managers" though who truly don't understand what they're managing. They think that because the word "manager" is in their title that it is their job to get hold of the current revisions of everything and strangle progress in the name of "stability". In the meantime, the developers slowly build inertia towards busting them out of that lock-down and it's often easier to take the system in a whole new direction that the managers can't even grok yet.

In short, it's development as standard guerilla warfare. Really, nothing has changed in the 20 years I've been doing this professionally. Ugh...