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  4. Butterfly Effect: the Story about One Technical Decision

Butterfly Effect: the Story about One Technical Decision

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.