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And one year later, a blog post titled "Why we moved to Java from Scala" or "Why we moved back to .NET" appeared on HN and havested hundreds of votes. Just kid

• CmonDev 13y ago
  It actually makes a lot of sense, because the change to Scala was triggered by "Simon". Another Simon will come and bring Python or something even worth.
  • seglo 13y ago
    That's incorrect. The technology change was bottom-up, by developers. Simon didn't intervene with his technical direction until we already had a couple of Scala projects under our belts.
    • _random_ 13y ago
      I you saying you had a vote and some developers (C#) disagreed and there was a minority of them?
      • seglo 13y ago
        There wasn't really a vote, but we did have a group forum where objections could be raised. People who weren't onboard with Scala were in the minority and most of the arguments raised didn't hold much water.