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In my experience, companies are deathly afraid of doing something even perceived as different when it comes to software. And my experience has been at places de
by bmitc 5y ago
In my experience, companies are deathly afraid of doing something even perceived as different when it comes to software. And my experience has been at places developing advanced novel hardware, so I would always try to point out the discrepancy. Why are people willing to try new things and train on advanced hardware projects but software gets relegated to the least common denominator? If it's not Python, C, or C++, it's a hard sell to try anything else, no matter the many multipliers that could come from switching.
- zelphirkalt 5y agoCould it be a lack of trust in the capability for learning new (old) things? The thinking, that a software developer is but a script kiddy?
- Jach 5y agoI wish it were so simple, yet I think the rapid advances in the last 10 years or so in Java, C++, and JavaScript, which developers have been expected to learn and keep up with, are sufficient to more than cast doubt on that. The changes on whole are nearly broad enough to count as new languages. If that's not enough, then there's the mobile development side of things, which have seen actual language shifts in Objective C to Swift and Old Java to Kotlin.
- bcrosby95 5y agoI think it makes sense. When I start a new project, I tend to limit the number of risks I'm taking at a time. If I'm using a brand new language, I'm probably not going to also use a brand new database. If I'm going into a brand new domain I'm completely ignorant of, I'm going to use non-risky tech. And so on.