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If you can't find another contractor to maintain things later on because you locked into an unpopular language, it'll feel pretty silly.
by ta17711771 6y ago
If you can't find another contractor to maintain things later on because you locked into an unpopular language, it'll feel pretty silly.
- muzani 6y agoThat would be part of the interview process - figuring whether their language of choice is replaceable. Most languages are learnable; every project I've joined was built in a language I had 0 experience in, but it's not hard to just hack in fixes or even rebuild modules completely. Outsourced work tends to be hacky and unmaintainable for the most part. Sometimes it's built cheap, with no architecture whatsoever or designed for a very specific situation. Even worse, it could be overengineered.