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They are bets. In the global market if you pick the wrong tool you severely limit your talent pool and upgrade path. Imagine being stuck on Marionette and Backb
by sergiotapia 10y ago
They are bets. In the global market if you pick the wrong tool you severely limit your talent pool and upgrade path. Imagine being stuck on Marionette and Backbone these days. Tough to attract talent with old technology like that.
And this is the global market.
Imagine how worse it is if you want to hire local. Yikes.
- cdata 10y agoI hear this mentality a lot, but I wonder how true it is in practice. The pool of engineers who are experienced with your stack will be bigger if you pick a "winning" or "popular" stack. But in my experience at Big Co, the stack is as often proprietary as not, yet Big Co can attract talent anyway. Having lived through transitions from Popular Stack Today to Popular Stack Next more than once, I have yet to go through the experience thinking that the upgrade path is easy. Proto-jQuery to jQuery, jQuery to Backbone, Backbone to Angular, Angular to React, React to other React-like things... these frameworks were all "winners," but I can't describe the upgrade path without using the word "rewrite."
- inopinatus 10y agoThat is not a bet. Choosing the wrong tool and blaming one's failure on "chance", on "losing a bet", is a classic case of denial. A smarter thing to say is "I made a mistake", and learn from it rather than denying it.
- Applejinx 10y agoDepends on what you're doing besides 'growing'.