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Joel Spolski told us all to hire, and aspire to be hired, as he did for his bugtracker written in a secret language that transpiled to VBScript.

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The article says he wrote the hiring guide at Microsoft.

Anyway, transpiling to a widely deployed scripting language has become awfully popular in the twenty years since FogBugz did theirs. (TypeScript, JSX, etc.) Maybe they were onto something the critics didn’t see at the time.

It's funny that it's the opposite of how Facebook works, a custom PHP dialect compiled using a custom JIT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HHVM)

And when you're a small company, you can be very picky, because you're hiring only a few.

Walmart cannot be so picky, as they need to maintain a workforce of 2.1 million.

You see the same thing in Google employees from nearer to its start date vs now.

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