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One strategy which i learnt from a tech company executive is that if you want to hire best of best at low cost, develop products in interesting new programming
by choot 8y ago
One strategy which i learnt from a tech company executive is that if you want to hire best of best at low cost, develop products in interesting new programming languages as the most curious programmers who are very serious about programming care less about money and more about work in a particular language of their interest.
No wonder the company had successful projects in every asoteric languages.
Now, I come from executive background in corporate job where going with anything other than Java is considered risky. This came off as suprise to me.
- Royalaid 8y agoIt's all tradeoffs, all the way down. The good thing about Java is most problems are solved or have easy paths forward by dipping into the massive development talent pool.
- lemming 8y ago...if you want to hire best of best at low cost, develop products in interesting new programming languages as the most curious programmers who are very serious about programming care less about money and more about work in a particular language of their interest. The problem is that the particular language of their interest probably changes every 6 months.
- narwally 8y ago>The problem is that the particular language of their interest probably changes every 6 months. As a language nerd, one of the nice things about Lisp is that the language is easily extended into other paradigms. I've stuck with Clojure for a long time because of this. It had Go style CSP-concurrency as the core.async library within a few years of release. I can use types by just loading core.typed, or I can play around with logic programming with core.logic. Whenever I find a cool feature in another language, I usually find out that it's already available in Clojure as a library.