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Probably should be "management" can't be rational about programming languages because that's what it's about. The article isn't talking about a group of engine
by wvenable 11mo ago
Probably should be "management" can't be rational about programming languages because that's what it's about. The article isn't talking about a group of engineers coming together to decide on a platform, instead it's about a choice being thrust upon from from up high. That management is also an engineer but that's not really the key point.
- 1718627440 11mo agoWhy would management care about tools?
- hunterpayne 11mo agoExactly, when they do its a sign of bad management. The only case I can think of when this isn't true would be the difficulty in finding people willing to use/work in that language. But in all but the most obscure languages, this is probably given too much weight by management.
- necovek 11mo agoIn the first example, they didn't and recruited a CTO who made a tool choice that arguably killed the business (maybe it still ends the same with PHP, minus the experience of building a nicely architected system in Perl: what-ifs all around). Management does need to care to ensure they hire people who will make the right choices (which is a careful balancing act of investment vs returns) if they don't trust themselves to do it.
- wvenable 11mo agoCTO is management.