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Sure, but if that's the appeal, it tends to attract the kind of person who looks at an old Rails app, and decides rather than cleaning it up the thing to do is
by coffeefirst 4y ago
Sure, but if that's the appeal, it tends to attract the kind of person who looks at an old Rails app, and decides rather than cleaning it up the thing to do is replace it with a sea of graphql-fronted microservices that's nearly impossible to work on.
There's other extremely cheap ways to compete: be family-friendly, open to remote, have sane processes, etc.
- gampleman 4y agoCodebases in old tech and new tech can both be bad. I don't think that's necessarily an argument against either. Part of getting good people is getting people who want to build maintainable and solid stuff. > There's other extremely cheap ways to compete: be family-friendly, open to remote, have sane processes, etc. Of course. Depending on how badly you're struggling to hire, you might need to do a bunch of these.