the speaker did something great and everyone thought they were awesome. Image credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_George_and_the_Dragon_by_Paolo_Uccello_(Paris)_01.jpg 5
wrong (that is: non-critical for us) problems Standardized everywhere else on React Limits inter-project mobility and career development Backed by smaller team, less adoption, earlier in the tech curve No compelling reason to re-write relatively new code Anti-dogfooding 10
Harder to attract good applicant pools to “boring” stacks Harder to compete for e.g. machine learning in the Bay Area Hard to scale on a tech with not many developers available yet (aka, “I need to hire a hundred Haskell experts”) 35
build browsers. We were particularly interested in two things: how to build more ambitious parallel architectures, and how to implement high- performance software without many of the pitfalls and vulnerabilities of C++.” 50