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By my understanding, the Windows app is written in an obsolete language and is requiring more and more heroic efforts to just keep it working -- sort of a Red Q
by inklesspen 19y ago
By my understanding, the Windows app is written in an obsolete language and is requiring more and more heroic efforts to just keep it working -- sort of a Red Queen effect. We could certainly scrap it and rewrite in .NET, but our past experiences with .NET have been less than positive. In addition, we're pretty far from a startup hub; even though we're not a startup, this is a problem, because we want to find expert hackers, not just average .NET programmers. So in that respect, Ruby on Rails is good for us because the few Rails programmers we do find are better than nearly all the .NET programmers we would find, and there's fewer resumes and interviews to go through.
- corentin 19y agoIf it requires more and more heroic efforts to just keep it working, it probably means that your organization can't manage a software project; either because your developers are not experienced or, more likely, because management doesn't understand software development (you're not alone; few companies truly master software development). Hence, it's probably not a language problem and switching to Ruby on Rails won't solve it in the long run.
- inklesspen 19y agoThis is probably the case, yeah, but I don't have the leverage to get this changed. I'm leaving the company myself in in about five months.