[Info-vax] Rust as a HS language, was: Re: Quiet?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/9/2022 4:11 AM, chris wrote:
> On 04/08/22 01:07, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 4/7/2022 5:50 PM, chris wrote:
>>> There you are again, another dig at others suggest insecurity, but
>>> I digress. Fortunately, people like you don't get to decide who
>>> works in the business and who doesn't.

>>> That's decided by project
>>> managers and engineers who look for the right kind of experience
>>> and attitude for the work they are trying to get done...
>>
>> Hopefully project managers are never involved in making
>> decisions about tech stack as it is not a project management
>> matter.
>>
>> Decisions about tech stack is an architecture matter and
>> architects should be the primary decision makers. They
>> can solicit input from software engineering to verify
>> that would should work actually does work in practice.
> 
> Nit picking semantics there. The project manager / team leader
> is usually at least as technically aware and switched on as
> the rest of the team.

Some project managers are (developer) technical because they come from a
development background. But some are not. Because project
management is not a (developer) technical discipline. It is about
project planning, project estimation, people management, risk
evaluation and mitigation, managing customer/management expectations
etc..

>                         Also, "tech stack" may be initiated by
> one of two people, but that is usually discussed and often
> changed once it reaches peer group review. Shared responsibility
> and many eyes helps build better product...

That is cowboy architecture.

Places with a more structured approach have architects
doing architecture work.

Arne