Python 3 at Facebook

Posted Jun 28, 2018 9:18 UTC (Thu) by dottedmag (subscriber, #18590)
Parent article: Python 3 at Facebook

So is Facebook a unique organization when one can spend 5 months rewriting a service they have inherited in a new language (and actually just fixing things so that would work), and then just decide to continue pushing for this language?

Would that ever work in a smaller company with way more limited resources?

Python 3 at Facebook

Posted Jun 28, 2018 9:59 UTC (Thu) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]

I'm sure he didn't do only that for five months.

Python 3 at Facebook

Posted Jul 1, 2018 8:00 UTC (Sun) by k8to (guest, #15413) [Link]

I think this is what "engineering driven organizations" in the bay area look like frequently.

I noped on out of a place like that. You couldn't co-ordinate with anyone reliably, and teams had essentially no idea what the users of their systems actually needed. So I think there are a lot of places where this strategy would work fine. But I am going to try not work there.