Comment by andrewstuart
2 years ago
In 2024 it is irresponsible to start that company off using gooby.
There’s plenty of mainstream programming languages that get the job done just fine without the hiring problems.
I’m 100% certain you don’t “need” gooby.
Hiring for gooby doesn’t scale, so unless your company’s goal is to stay small, don’t use gooby. And “the CTO likes it” isn’t good enough reason.
The original gooby loving CTO always leaves to spread more gooby to other companies and the owners of the company are left with a long term problem.
Just use the garden variety languages that there is a large talent pool for.
Do your gooby at home on your personal projects.
This is a good post with good points. What languages do you consider "garden variety" these days? For me: JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, C#, Python, Ruby. Unless you have very specific systems programming needs, I would avoid C++ and Rust, as once the project grows complex enough, you need to hire very skills (read: expensive) engineers.