[dmitriid]

Complementary: This thread on Uber's transition to Swift that almost broke them https://twitter.com/StanTwinB/status/1336890442768547845

Includes, among other things: forcing Apple to increase cellular download limits, 45 seconds for letters to appear in XCode, 12 seconds to call main, rewriting the linker and so on.

[ohiovr]

I'm sure swift's shifting sand castle language changes didn't help.

[satya71]

Good read. Good to know that Uber engineering culture was as much of a dumpster fire (despite the brilliant moves) as their product.

[satya71]

Hmm, looks like this comment didn't go over well. I think they had brilliant engineers (far beyond what I can even imagine) that pulled-off incredible feats to avoid disaster. But the disaster need not have loomed. Rewrite-the-world development smacks of what I call "cowboy engineering". Why didn't they migrate the existing code-base one layer at a time?

[pid_0]

Brilliant is a big word for a company that still hasn't earned a profit

[ohiovr]

They took a lot of investor's money.. So in a sense it was a success.