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Also the "bus number" consideration - companies are (reasonably) wary to add things to their codebase that only one developer knows how to maintain. Getting a

by orzig 8y ago

Also the "bus number" consideration - companies are (reasonably) wary to add things to their codebase that only one developer knows how to maintain. Getting a group of devs to commit to >6mo learning Rust could kickstart a real change. There needs to be critical mass.

Dowwie 8y ago
Key man risk is a real challenge. No doubt. Python wasn't always so popular. There was a time when Java was safer for resourcing and Python was risky. What did managers do, if anything, to manage the risk that their sole Python programmer would one day likely leave?