Why shouldn't you use your favorite technology?

wallymathieu commented 5 years ago

Does it benefit the team? Can the team use and understand the tech? Will it increase the workload of the team with little benefit right now?
Is it compatible with the company recruiting strategy? I.e. what kind of skillset is required to operate?
What's the cost of the technology? Has it become aggressively prised?
Is it the right time for it? Is it useful right now? Are you gold plating?
Just because a big company pushes the tech does not mean that it will help you. Have you bought into their marketing spiel and hype? Have you tested it in real deployment under load?

What are the alternatives?

Is there a current solution that is good enough?

Why should you use your favorite technology?

If the tools will improve productivity while piss off potential programmers: Are you doing average kind of programming with average time constraint?

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

Depending on what you are trying to do, ML style languages, Lisps, Logic programming langs can be force multipliers.

wallymathieu commented 5 years ago

Example technologies or others? Specific SQL implementation. Programming language. Programming patterns. SCRUM, Kanban. Organization structure. Architecture.

wallymathieu commented 5 years ago

AWS vs Azure vs Digital Ocean vs local provider vs ...

wallymathieu commented 5 years ago

I'm deeply ambivalent. On one hand it can be very productive to go with what you know, on the other team participation requires tech that is close enough to what is known. Do we restrict ourself unnecessarily? At the same time, being on the receiving end of someone's favorite tech spree can be enormously frustrating (if they give half-assed answers to why).

wallymathieu commented 5 years ago

One-off? POC? Seed/scaffolding? Start-up?

wallymathieu commented 5 years ago

Lots of unit tests and type system enabled validation can help productivity. Productivity is seldom the biggest goal.

wallymathieu commented 5 years ago

Rough equivalences:

C# ~> Java

Ruby ~> Python ~> PHP ~> JS ~> Perl?

C, Fortran

wallymathieu commented 4 years ago

I'm not sure it's interesting thing to talk about.

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