Unpopular Opinions about Tech

&gt; &quot;<i>The big tech companies don’t employ so many engineers because they need them, they do it because they are afraid of being understaffed when the next big paradigm shift happens</i>&quot;<p>Nope, can&#x27;t agree with this one. The reasons the big tech companies employ so many engineers is 1) Empire building by senior management to justify their next promotion and 2) said big tech companies are floundering around trying to build something that create the next big paradigm shift, 99.9% of which gets cancelled before ever seeing the light of day or flops miserably in the marketplace if it does. Been there, done that.

I&#x27;m here to defend kale, as someone who finds most leafy vegetables unpalatable. If anything, kale provides formidable contrast and texture in fatty soups, for example, in Olive Garden&#x27;s Zuppa Toscana.<p>Or is Kale a devops tool I haven&#x27;t heard about? It was capitalized in the original post.

&gt; Site speed only matters in so much as: A) google uses it to rank you, and B) it impacts your users ability to use your product<p>This can’t be an unpopular opinion. Is there anyone disputing that usability and SEO are the main reasons for increasing site speed?

Joe seems a little lost. Not really sure what productivity gains react&#x2F;graphq has over php or ruby&#x2F;rails. Must have provided one for Joe. PHP with laravel is like a rocketspace for productivity..

&gt; The hard part about iOS development was never Objective-C but rather the cocoa libraries it has to interact with. Swift just applied a more modern language to the same root problem. For a more modern version of this statement, see SwiftUI<p>Isn&#x27;t the big selling point of Swift that you no longer have to worry about null exceptions? Though presumably there could have been a way to improve Objective-C without requiring a new language to add optionals.

&gt; React Hooks are redux for devs that can’t be trusted to use redux<p>I can&#x27;t imagine this statement coming from someone who doesn&#x27;t grotesquely overuse Redux.

C, C++, Java, Python and Ruby are inferior to ML, Erlang, Haskell and Lisp. Nobody who has used Lisp and Java seriously believes that Java is the better tool. But the people who know both are drowned out by huge numbers of mediocre devs who think Java is all they need to know.

Author here. Curious to hear what your unpopular opinions are when it comes to tech

I kept trying to upvote these.

* There&#x27;s a generation of managers that learned some dev up to Python and now make up stories to justify using Python like &quot;we&#x27;ll be able to hire a bunch of jr devs and Django will guide them&quot;. When they&#x27;re really just too lazy&#x2F;incompetent to learn a more modern language.