Python 3 at Facebook

Posted Jul 3, 2018 8:50 UTC (Tue) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: Python 3 at Facebook by starchip
Parent article: Python 3 at Facebook

Facebook's strategy is that migrations like Python 2 to Python 3 have to be engineer-led. Somebody has to step up, do the work, and convince the rest of the company that that work is of value, otherwise it does not happen. The idea is that if it's not of value, nobody will do it, and if it is of value, someone like Jason will step up and do the work.

Jason didn't have to fight the company strategy - it's just that somebody had to be first, and lead the rest of the company in a better direction. Changing the company direction is easy for an individual engineer at Facebook; just do the work and get your peers to agree that it's of value.