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“In recent years, Kotlin has become a popular language for Android development. So it only makes sense that we would shift our Android development at Meta to Ko
by voganmother42 4y ago
“In recent years, Kotlin has become a popular language for Android development. So it only makes sense that we would shift our Android development at Meta to Kotlin as we work to make our development workflows more efficient.”
I like Kotlin, but this was pretty funny to me: I imagined walking into a meeting and trying to tell colleagues we needed to move to X because it was popular, then yeet out the ole “efficient”, mic drop & moonwalk out
- washywashy 4y agoHappens so much more often than you think. Have actually seen it with the exact same language (Java->kotlin) on an existing service. I don’t really recall any valid reasons being given for the switch (better support for concurrency etc). I think often times managers allow this bc they don’t want certain engineers to get bored and leave, which is odd to me since who knows why/when they will leave and they won’t take the services with them.
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- hdjjhhvvhga 4y agoIt happens all the time. I remember when AWS wall all the rage my boss came up and told me we need to use S3. Why? "Because everybody is using it!" I tried to reason, I did a cost analysis - all for no avail. The same boss a few years later: "Why are we paying so much for storage?!" He apparently forgot he insisted on it in the first place.
- einpoklum 4y agoI'm 100% sure there's a Dilbert strip with exactly this scenario.
- belmont_sup 4y agoI read it more as they now have kotlin and want to simplify new project decisions to just kotlin. I find this similar to how rust is being added to the Linux kernel.