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The risk is that you are using a legacy language in some of your products which no one else knows how to write in.
by ma2rten 13y ago
The risk is that you are using a legacy language in some of your products which no one else knows how to write in.
- coldtea 13y agoNoted how Google didn't wholesale adopt Go? And also how they started using some of it here and there (a YouTube MySQL balancer, a downloads tool) AFTER there was decent adoption of it already? Not to mention that at the scale of Google, they can pay for the continued development of 5 or 10 languages and/or compilers to suit their needs (and, well, they do: Dart, Closure, Go, V8, their Unladden Swallow experiment etc etc), as well as train stuff to use it. And it's not like an half-competent Google employee can't learn how to "write in" Go in a week or so. So, it's not a case like some random startup chosing to use an obscure language -- those indeed would have the problem of not finding enough hires.