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I have experienced this horrible chicken-and-egg problem firsthand. I worked at Zipcar building the control boxes used for rentals and the fit for Rust was obvi
by thenewwazoo 6y ago
I have experienced this horrible chicken-and-egg problem firsthand. I worked at Zipcar building the control boxes used for rentals and the fit for Rust was obvious and compelling, but was squashed by management because it was "too hard to hire" and "the language is underdeveloped". While those things are true, to fix them someone has to just do it. Instead, they fired me and now I make twice the money doing SRE work again at a FAANG.
- bluGill 6y agoThe problem doesn't exist for in house software. Any good programmer can learn whatever language in a week. They can become good over the next few years. Coworkers to help teach help a lot. When you turn code over to someone else it matters because who you turn it over to needs to learn the language fast and they won't have a few weeks or someone else to teach them.