Re:The golden age of Kotlin and its uncertain future
by ivan_gammel on Thursday January 11, 2024 @03:42AM
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Well, my team is now on latest LTS (21) and we do use new features in our code. Hiring an engineer who can write modern code is not any more difficult than hiring without this requirement. It is generally a management problem, that any skilled senior manager should be able to solve. After all, enterprise anti-patterns are not uncurable poison, e.g. switching to record-style accessors is something people can do on their first day easily.
Also, it's hard to find Java programmers who haven't been tainted by that enterprise mentality, so in a way it makes hiring hard if you don't have the resources to filter the junk. When you see Clojure or Scala on a resume you know they're above that.