Evgeny Kot at ReactiveConf 2019

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.Show more