On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Gregory Szorc <g...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> The public source code for Firefox has existed for 17+ years (since ~April > 1998). We can only assume it will be around for another 10+ years. > > I believe you have to take the long view on the cost benefit analysis and > realize that a lot of pain in the short term (e.g. switching styles > entirely) will be a fraction of the cost for tolerating inconsistent styles > for years more. Yes, it will be painful to transition. But for software > with a history measured in decades as opposed to months, being > short-sighted will only burden us with various forms of debt in the years > to come. > There are two uses of "consistency" being thrown around. One is internal consistency within the project (with our style guide), the other is consistency with Google C++ style (and lack of consistency with other things, like JS). I don't believe at all that the lack of the latter is a "burden" or a "debt" that will hamper our ability to effectively evolve Gecko, and we can get the former much more cheaply. Why make it harder for ourselves? _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
