Marco Alka

Software Engineer, Technical Consultant & Mentor

Feb 21, 2017

Do you prefer cutting edge over mature tech stack?

For what? My game? The software for a radiation therapy machine?

The answer depends strongly on whatever you develop. For personal/fun projects, bleeding edge is ok (for instance, I am using Rust and Vulkan for my game). For anything which should be remotely productive: stable and mature.

SP

Sébastien Portebois

Software architect at Ubisoft

Feb 21, 2017

100% agree. For critical stuff, we have one question to ask: does the shiny new stuff solve a problem that an older 'boring' proven tech doesn't solve? If yes, what's the risk. If not, it's a no brainer: choose the old boring stuff. This gives you more reliability and saves you time, which you can use to train on the new shiny stuff on non-critical stuff (tooling, prototypes, proof of concepts, ...)

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