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> It's a post about being conservative with technology yet most of the choices seem hipster. Clojure, why not java? Diatomic, why not postgres? Flutter... it's gonna be cancelled.

Clojure is 16 years old, how is that hipster tech?

> Diatomic, why not postgres?

If it works, why not?

> Flutter... it's gonna be cancelled.

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> Clojure is 16 years old, how is that hipster tech?

Common Lisp is 39 years old and it’s hipster tech. APL is 57 years old and it’s hipster tech. You can be a hipster at any age. (And it’s not a bad thing.)

Flutter is a Google product. And Google isn’t well-known for stable long-lived products.

Right, they're going to kill 6 year old project that they're actively investing in (https://medium.com/flutter/whats-new-in-flutter-3-13-479d9b1...) and use to write their projects (https://flutter.dev/showcase/google-classroom, https://flutter.dev/showcase/google-pay).

I don't like Google and Flutter as much as the next guy, but at least use some arguments instead of parroting "Le GoOgLe bad" meme.

They may cancel it.

But if they do, the bank loses their mobile apps, of which they built one (so far) that ports nicely to iOS and Android.

Then they make new ones.

What else should they have used?

At some point worrying that things will be deprecated is just a loosing proposition.

Mobile apps are not irreplaceable.

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