UPDATE: Spoke to a 3rd team, he clearly told me they used TypeScript. --- I had two separate full stack team matching calls today, both went like this: Me: "Which technologies do you use for the frontend?" Manager: "We use React and Javascript." Me: "Javascript or TypeScript?" Manager: "Uhh... Javascript I think?" Me: "There's no way that's the case... I don't want to work with Javascript." Manager: "I'm not really sure, let me get back to you on that." Does Stripe really use plain Javascript for its frontend, or are those managers buggin on a stickity stack? #stripe
Who fucking cares
I bet u code in Microsoft Office.
This is coming from eng manager…?
They might have been using Flow but they are definitely moving to Typescript if they already haven't.
Good guess. https://twitter.com/alunny/status/1501261144341680130?s=21&t=HYReVdXtgJX6jnVdtf9lrQ
Thanks Stripe, do you know if it's mostly in TS or still mostly in Flow?
Surprised manager doesn’t even know what stack they have.
Yes
Managers are not supposed to be writing code day to day so EM not knowing exact language is really not a big deal if they are taking caring of their team and driving higher level impact by building right strategy. Also, it depends if their team is even full stack or not. Typically an engineer getting hung up on specific technology is a red flag. Good engineers have problem solving mindset who don’t worry about underlying tech as much.
Not using TypeScript is a myth