Please spare us the typical

- Look at people using identity-focused reasoning with politics

- It’s research!

- That’s the same as those <programming language tropes>

- Because I have some anecdotes about that

But the person making the argument couldn’t be falling for the same thing? Nope.[1]

Maybe it would be nice to have more objective metrics. So what’s that?

> We need a framework that makes the invisible costs visible. One that lets us have the economic conversation instead of the identity conversation. One that works whether you’re choosing your first language or evaluating a migration.

> Our industry has never really had that framework… Until now.

I better Stay Tuned.

[1] Those irrational people: making arguments. Me, the rational one: also making arguments, but mine are correct.