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This just isn't true. There is a reason people look for devs with years of experience in a certain stack.
by JamesBarney 8y ago
This just isn't true. There is a reason people look for devs with years of experience in a certain stack.
- mruts 8y agoAt work we use Scala in a very functional style and Akka. Not a single dev on our team (including me) knew Scala when they started. Everyone was productive with the codebase and programmed idiomatically within a matter of weeks.
- JamesBarney 8y agoI imagine the team was familiar with writing Java, which makes moving to Scala the easiest possible language transition besides maybe a move from C# to VB.NET. Switching to a completely different ecosystem, such as to R, Racket, Haskell and C takes at least twice as long. And could be much longer if you're relying on large framework changes, for instance if you're switching from QT to GTK+ or WPF.
- segmondy 8y agoThose developers ain't worth their salt.
- JamesBarney 8y agoAre you arguing that developers graduate and hit maximal productivity in any stack in 3 weeks?