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To people who only know how to write backend javascript, yes. I think companies underappreciate this. If your current tech team is focused on (insert any spec
by ethbro 7y ago
To people who only know how to write backend javascript, yes.
I think companies underappreciate this.
If your current tech team is focused on (insert any specific language / framework), then why are they going to like and hire anyone with different experience?
Your telling me how you can do it in 3 lines of (new language) makes me feel pretty bad about my 1000 lines of Java.
- msla 7y ago> If your current tech team is focused on (insert any specific language / framework), then why are they going to like and hire anyone with different experience? > Your telling me how you can do it in 3 lines of (new language) makes me feel pretty bad about my 1000 lines of Java. Blub languages aside, a candidate focusing on how they do things in $LANGUAGE_WE_DONT_USE_HERE means they're going to have to get their feet under them to read our existing code fluently, to write code in our style, and to get all of the other language- and tooling-specific institutional knowledge existing programmers here have.
- ethbro 7y agoOn the flip side, they're also going to bring ideas from $LANGUAGE_WE_DONT_USE_HERE. Short term vs long term optimization. Neither strictly better.