Evgeny Kot

The choice of the technical stack is very important, isn’t it? Libraries, frameworks, languages, all of these things can help a product to develop, but can also lead to a catastrophic collapse.

Five years ago, at Wrike, we chose Dart as the main language for frontend development. Since then, we have written more than a million and a half lines of code and our R&D team has grown almost tenfold. But we never thought that choosing one single language could lead to such consequences!

The story about how we chose a language and where we were wrong (and where we were right) and why your choice can cost you so much.

2019

ReactiveConf

Butterfly Effect: the Story about One Technical Decision

Do you remember Dart? See what happened with the “JavaScript killer”, and why you need to try it right now.

Do you remember anything about the Dart programming language? Time have changed, and the second coming is near. I'll show you what happened with “JavaScript killer”, and why do you need to try it right now.