Episode 24 - Choosing Your Language
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One of the biggest decisions that you have to make when starting a large software project is which language or languages to write it in. In this episode we discuss what factors you should consider when picking a language and what language decisions Starling has made over the past three and a half years. Host Jason Maude investigates this with Head of Engineering for Apps and APIs Sam Everington and Lead Android Engineer Vasily Siminov.
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