> In my experience, the deadline-driven culture crushes any scope for creativity and experimentation.
This is very well compressed criticism of our modern breed of capitalism.
Creativity is very rarely given a true chance.
This is very well compressed criticism of our modern breed of capitalism.
Creativity is very rarely given a true chance.
> “Hey, I think we should experiment with Kotlin. It has lots of traction, Google officially supports it on Android and seems might help us write better code. Here is a PR showing how it’ll fit into our project.”
> “Umm, engineers will need to learn a new language. We have other priorities right now. Let’s consider it later.”
Without knowing too much of details, this looks like it can be a very valid point against introducing new language or technology when you truly have higher priorities and current choice of languages is good enough.
The part I quoted just got me thinking about a much bigger picture and things I have been witnessing my entire life.
I realize that my previous comment is broad and vague.