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Sure, but if there majority of your customers want a different language? You should probably listen. That's what happened here, and we are way happier for it.
by dgoldstein0 6y ago
Sure, but if there majority of your customers want a different language? You should probably listen. That's what happened here, and we are way happier for it.
You might even guess that the "old guard" could have been against such a migration. As someone who should have been a member of that, I wasn't a fan of changing... But then got a few rude reminders from debugging coffeescript that didn't mean what I meant to write. At which point I started thinking that maybe everyone else had a point.
- jessaustin 6y agoYour comment above seemed to refer to constraints in the other direction: "we can't use Lisp because the only coders available to hire only know Java!" The point is, coffeescript and javascript are much more similar than that, especially now that javascript has imperfectly copied some of coffeescript's improvements.
- dgoldstein0 6y agoIt's not we can't use it, but rather using it for everything would make hiring, onboarding, and retention tougher, as well as maintenance. Apologies if I have the wrong impression in the earlier post.