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by AlchemistCamp 1949 days ago
The bigger issue than shrinking the pool of devs is shrinking the pool of solutions and missing better/faster/cheaper options. E.g., many companies did exactly that in the previous two decades by trying to do everything in Java when a higher level language would have served them better.

If it's what you know and you're taking it over, though, that makes more sense.
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passivate 1949 days ago
> E.g., many companies did exactly that in the previous two decades by trying to do everything in Java when a higher level language would have served them better.

Can you give us some real-world examples that you've seen?

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hntrader 1949 days ago
I agree but we're talking about a pretty quick and dirty personal project here where quality, maintainability etc aren't important, and I vaguely knew that the Selenium package could do what I wanted in this language.

If I was hiring for something more important I would've put more thought into that aspect

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