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If they want fungible engineers, yes. They don’t want to pay extra for an expert in wxWidgets and Horde3D. They don’t want to wait while that expert’s replaceme

If they want fungible engineers, yes. They don’t want to pay extra for an expert in wxWidgets and Horde3D. They don’t want to wait while that expert’s replacement comes up to speed on Horde3D. They don’t even want to wait for any existing engineers to learn these two technologies. They know web, they can manage web - web is “less risky.”

72deluxe 11mo ago
I too did not know anything about Horde3D when I found it and incorporated it.
- cyanydeez 11mo ago
  Once you have MBAs, they don't want you wasting their 6-month bonus
- estimator7292 11mo ago
  You're deliberately missing the point
  - 72deluxe 11mo ago
    I am pretty sure the point was that a skilled workforce is apparent, and that the lack of such is also apparent in its output.
Gud 11mo ago
You don’t need to be an expert in wxWidgets to send some text messages…
- GoblinSlayer 11mo ago
  npm instal vxwigdes doesn't work
simoncion 11mo ago
> They don’t want to pay extra for an expert in wxWidgets and Horde3D. In my experience, in a large software company [0] it's very common for new folks on a "team" to have to spend one or (often) more months learning both the software they're now working on and the various libraries used in its construction. It's very nice if you can find an expert in everything you've used on a software project, but that's not going to happen often. [1] And -IMO- if whoever you've hired can't generally come up to speed on WxWidgets in a couple of weeks while also becoming familiar with the rest of the project they're now responsible for, they're not someone you want working on your project. [0] Which is the sort of company we're talking about right now. [1] In part because companies generally don't want to pay enough to hire such people.
skydhash 11mo ago
A lot of native toolkits are much more amenable to learning than the web. Web developers tends to create abstraction towers just to say they’re expert in a very small niche. I’ll take autotools and gtk over next.js everytime.

72deluxe 11mo ago

I too did not know anything about Horde3D when I found it and incorporated it.

cyanydeez 11mo ago
Once you have MBAs, they don't want you wasting their 6-month bonus
estimator7292 11mo ago
You're deliberately missing the point
- 72deluxe 11mo ago
  I am pretty sure the point was that a skilled workforce is apparent, and that the lack of such is also apparent in its output.

Gud 11mo ago

You don’t need to be an expert in wxWidgets to send some text messages…

GoblinSlayer 11mo ago
npm instal vxwigdes doesn't work

simoncion 11mo ago

> They don’t want to pay extra for an expert in wxWidgets and Horde3D. In my experience, in a large software company [0] it's very common for new folks on a "team" to have to spend one or (often) more months learning both the software they're now working on and the various libraries used in its construction. It's very nice if you can find an expert in everything you've used on a software project, but that's not going to happen often. [1] And -IMO- if whoever you've hired can't generally come up to speed on WxWidgets in a couple of weeks while also becoming familiar with the rest of the project they're now responsible for, they're not someone you want working on your project. [0] Which is the sort of company we're talking about right now. [1] In part because companies generally don't want to pay enough to hire such people.

skydhash 11mo ago

A lot of native toolkits are much more amenable to learning than the web. Web developers tends to create abstraction towers just to say they’re expert in a very small niche. I’ll take autotools and gtk over next.js everytime.