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Re:How Rust Lets Us Monitor 30k API calls/min by jeffbee on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @04:05PM (#23543416)
You've (probably unintentionally, judging by your tone) shined a light on the corrupt culture of that engineering org. It's written down that Tier 2 languages require special permission to begin new projects. It doesn't sound like we disagree on that. The corrupt cultural aspect is there exists an in-group clique of engineers who can and will start projects in any language they want, and an out-group against whom the written policy will be used to stop new efforts.

It is definitely not the case that any randomly selected backend engineer at that company can just pick up Rust and solve any problem with it, because the Tier 2 status is used as a cudgel to stop most such efforts.

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Re:How Rust Lets Us Monitor 30k API calls/min by staticassertion on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @04:15PM (#23543520)
I disagree entirely with the "forbidden" wording. That's it. Tier 2 is not "Forbidden" it is a statement on the level of support.

I agree with your point about political issues - the entire tier list, specifically even Rust being tier 2, was political. I saw stupid shit like that too many times at Dropbox.

But it is simply a fact that new projects are being built in Rust, regardless of the political aspects of why that is the case despite it being tier 2. "Forbidden" does not convey the state of things - everything else you've said is agreeable.

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