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I thought it was understood that choosing a less popular language meant hiring people for fundamentals and then letting them ramp on on your language. Did the c
by closeparen 6y ago
I thought it was understood that choosing a less popular language meant hiring people for fundamentals and then letting them ramp on on your language. Did the client choose Scala thinking they would just hire "Scala people"?
- hderms 6y agoIf you stick to a reasonable middle-ground of scala it really shouldn't be hard to teach. I do like the FP community but that style has gone a long way towards mythologizing scala as an impossible language to teach. In my experience it's clearly considerably simpler than Rust or C++ to become productive in.