How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D

Re:How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D by walshemj on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @12:57PM (#17357128)

Just tell your new hires here is a book on the language go learn it - which is what I was told at my first Job (world leading RnD).

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Re:How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D by oh-kumudo on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @02:01PM (#17357896)

I am usually not against learning new stuff. But I would also like my learning from current work generalize to my future career. From a pragmatic perspective, learning D is probably going to have less ROI.

Either the company focus solely on finding enthusiasts or they pay the premium to overcome this.

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Re:How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D by walshemj on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @02:11PM (#17358024)

True up to a point but any professional developer needs to be able to pick up a new language quickly - I had to learn Pl/1G to work on a Map reduce code base.

I was assuming a more rational choice but then developing serious technical software in pascal instead of fortran in the 80's was not a rational choice in the first place.

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