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My experience in hypergrowth-to-IPO world is everything gets rewritten a little while after its original authors move on, no matter the language. My experience
by closeparen 4y ago
My experience in hypergrowth-to-IPO world is everything gets rewritten a little while after its original authors move on, no matter the language.
My experience is also that picking up a working familiarity with esoteric languages, while more demanding than shitting out boilerplate-heavy code in non-expressive languages, is considerably less demanding than leaning to pass LeetCode interviews. Plenty of people seem willing to do the latter!
- ezoe 4y agoWell, people who can write in less popular languages are definitely above average programmers. But I think it just mean they can write code in their own instead of copy&pasting from the random web sites. Being a less popular languages means you can't find convenient example codes from the Internet. Still, being able to write code in their own doesn't mean they can write a good code. I witnessed a complex recursive code with a bug on edge case in a functional language. It could be easily and cleanly written by using common practice of that language and its standard library, like foldl. Also, code lives longer than you expected.