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by bradleyjg
2612 days ago
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I guess my answer would be that this is the kind of decision that requires being able to see the big picture. Is an individual developer in a position to weigh future recruitment challenges? My remark about firing a person merely wanting to write something in a different language was off base and end up derailing the discussion. But the point I should have made, and stick by, is that this decision is properly made at either the company wide level, or for large companies at the level several rungs up the ladder. It isn't at all, like someone suggested above, equivalent to picking a personal IDE. |
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Maybe, particularly if it's a smaller organisation.
In any case, it's obviously a management decision at some point, as all things are. However, it seems quite reasonable for me for a developer to advocate using a more suitable tool even if it's not an existing choice/standard within the organisation, and if they make a good case, it seems quite reasonable to me that management might then back them despite the downsides if the upsides appear greater.