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Can you hire people who know other languages and train them in python? Why would you need to change languages?
by unlikelymordant 4y ago
Can you hire people who know other languages and train them in python? Why would you need to change languages?
- stubish 4y agoI worded that badly sorry. Only one project switched to Go (a rewrite), and a few new projects where Go from the start. There was still a lot of Python. We hired from Open Source communities (mailing lists, conferences, our own website), and applicants always had at least basic language skills and more importantly a desire to work with it. Once you start hiring people from outside, who are not interested in you or your tech and just interested in a job, you lose the benefits being discussed in the article. One of the reasons we expanded to include Go was to increase the size of the recruitment pool.