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There's a big part of me that agrees with your implied conclusion, that it shouldn't matter. On the other hand, I've found that core decisions like language ec
by gorjusborg 10mo ago
There's a big part of me that agrees with your implied conclusion, that it shouldn't matter.
On the other hand, I've found that core decisions like language ecosystem choice can be a good leading indicator of other seemingly unrelated decisions.
When I see someone choose a tool that I think is extremely well suited for a purpose, it makes me curious to see what else we agree on.
The Oven team, the ones who created the Bun runtime, is a good example for me. I think Zig is probably the best compromise out there right now, for my sensibilities. The Oven folks, who chose to use Zig to implement Bun, _also_ made a lot of product decisions I really agree with.
- karmakaze 10mo agoThis is one of my assessments/red-flags when interviewing with a company. Their tech stack/choices is a reflection of their engineering culture. If they chose Zig or Rust, I'd want to hear why that was a better choice than using a gc'd language.
- Milpotel 10mo ago> If they chose Zig or Rust, I'd want to hear why that was a better choice than using a gc'd language. Come on, they advertise with benchmarks hence it's quite obvious why they didn't chose a gc'd language.
- karmakaze 10mo agoOh yes I know they do in this post, I meant more generally. Even myself I often wish I had a need to use a lower-level, cooler language, but the pragmatic side of me just can't justify it.