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The real worst case scenario is facing a competitor that's much faster than you on implementing new features and testing hypothesis. Using an esoteric language
by haolez 4y ago
The real worst case scenario is facing a competitor that's much faster than you on implementing new features and testing hypothesis. Using an esoteric language might be one of the leverages that this competitor has against your tight mainstream stack.
- Scarbutt 4y agoIn 2022 thinking that your esoteric language is going to help you implement new features faster than with a mainstream language is just plain language zealotry.
- haolez 4y agoI disagree.
- mylons 4y agolove the substance in your comment
- JonChesterfield 4y agoOn the basis that esoteric languages come with fewer libraries and new features largely involve gluing libraries together to make things like other things that already exist?
- mylons 4y agoi’ve worked with people like you in the past. they all write books for their language now. none of them correct. it’s almost never the language that holds you back. it’s the organization and it’s priorities. an easy example is instagram and their use of python. they crushed with a language that clojure folx look down on.