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Do you really want people on your team who think that having to read a free book and investing 3 weeks to learn a new language is too much of an effort?
by dorfsmay 10y ago
Do you really want people on your team who think that having to read a free book and investing 3 weeks to learn a new language is too much of an effort?
- strken 10y agoFirstly, when the initial impression of a language is that it's not fast to code in, people seem to assume that it will remain unproductive in regular use. This is clearly the case with ESR, and is a problem that's relevant to the Rust community in general. Secondly, as per the Rolling Stones, you can't always get what you want.
- solidsnack9000 10y agoSometimes you don't have a choice. You don't want those people but they are forced on you. It's strange the short term focus that is accepted in what are nominally professionals.
- saturn_vk 10y agoIt may very well be out of your hands. I wasn't able to convince my coworkers to use Kotlin for an android app, even though at the end of the day I was the only one coding it. And Kotlin takes a few hours to pick up if you know Java.
- TorKlingberg 10y agoMaybe they are spending those three weeks learning something else. There are thousands of things that "every programmer should know" and thousands more that "every human should know", and you will never have time to learn them all.