The uber/swift rewrite thread from a couple years ago is highly informative of the company "engineering" culture.
The kinds of decisions taken for granted by the hacker news thread/etc are the kinds of decisions that could sink a self funded company, starting with the fact that they are basically writing multiple copies of the application for each platform (ios vs android) and going from there. This is maybe the problem with VC funded companies (like government contracts) the money just keeps flowing independent of all the bad decisions being made. Also, having enough engineers that whole teams can be split off to rewrite the application for no appreciable benefit except to peoples resume's is itself an upper mgmt problem. If the goal was a single unified application I might see how something like that could be justified, but they choose technology stacks that are to native for that to work.
The kinds of decisions taken for granted by the hacker news thread/etc are the kinds of decisions that could sink a self funded company, starting with the fact that they are basically writing multiple copies of the application for each platform (ios vs android) and going from there. This is maybe the problem with VC funded companies (like government contracts) the money just keeps flowing independent of all the bad decisions being made. Also, having enough engineers that whole teams can be split off to rewrite the application for no appreciable benefit except to peoples resume's is itself an upper mgmt problem. If the goal was a single unified application I might see how something like that could be justified, but they choose technology stacks that are to native for that to work.