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It's going to be a real struggle to hire F# developers to migrate things off of F#. Most people working in niche langs arrived there looking for something bett
by posix_monad 3y ago
It's going to be a real struggle to hire F# developers to migrate things off of F#.
Most people working in niche langs arrived there looking for something better than the mainstream.
- ugh123 3y agoPerhaps AI/chatbot tools can help with code translation
- gorjusborg 3y agoI think it depends on the delivery during the interview/onboarding process. I would definitely have a lot of questions around the goals and motivations for the decisions behind the port. If the thinking is in the right place (we're making a good trade given our situation) I could get up for it, despite my bias toward functional-style code.
- posix_monad 3y agoYou'd hope so, but the job ad specifies Java experience, so there's a good chance this will be converting code from FP to OOP. And the reason is most likely corporate homogeneity.