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I don’t think one can conclude from the “success” of paring down Twitter’s staff, that one can “just as successfully” pare down the US Government (computing) staff. Twitter’s code base stands on the shoulders of over 50 years of computer research, development, and evolution — its inner workings are significantly more robust than that of the US Government, and it should not have surprised anyone too much that it could continue to operate with a significantly smaller staff, if you only cared to operate in “maintenance mode”.

In a nutshell: Scala >> COBOL

Jennifer Pahlka addresses this in a recent post: https://substack.com/home/post/p-156568715

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