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Literally interviewed at a company that is doing the same thing. B series, clojure/scala codebase, moving away to Elixir Phoenix.
by sergiotapia 8y ago
Literally interviewed at a company that is doing the same thing. B series, clojure/scala codebase, moving away to Elixir Phoenix.
- james-mcelwain 8y agoSeems pretty weird to suggest that if juniors are struggling with one niche language, moving to another would ever be the solution.
- pjmlp 8y agoFashion driven development.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoI believe that if a company wants to do software by throwing as much bodies at it as possible, they need to embrace it fully and openly. Going back to pure Java might be a good idea, as the language enables progress to be made in a "factory coding" environment pretty much by design. (Not a judgement; this is a legit use case, even though not an environment I like to work in.)
- dudul 8y agoLooks like a big waste of time and resources. They're probably just trying to use the "coolest" thing without worrying about delivering things.
- sergiotapia 8y agoYou would think but they measured what they need and they are sure that Elixir is the right fit for their use case. They aren't a CRUD company, like 99% of others. They are doing freaky things with multiple freaky orchestrations with multiple freaky OLD-WORLD institutions. Rails aint gonna cut it.
- hnbroseph 8y agothat's 3x freaky... sounds serious!
- sergiotapia 8y agoit sounds freaky!!!
- dudul 8y agoFair enough. I personally think that companies for which the choice of technology is gonna be the primary factor to success are as common as unicorns. I have never seen a company fail because they picked the wrong language/tech stack. But hey, if they've measured, they probably know what they are doing.