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Disclosure: Current googler It used to be a deal-killer. It's less of one now, but that's more because they'll acquire a company and have the staff re-invent t
by shaftway 9y ago
Disclosure: Current googler
It used to be a deal-killer. It's less of one now, but that's more because they'll acquire a company and have the staff re-invent the project in one of the "blessed" languages (Java, Python, C++, Go) while they run the old code on isolated VMs.
Actually, they do that even if the project was in one of the blessed languages. There's a tech stack my internal project uses that was acquired. We can't use it for certain sensitive data because it's considered "untrusted", which is kind of a pain. We're waiting for the re-write to stabilize so we can move over to that.