Elon Musk brings Tesla engineers to Twitter who use solely totally different programming language

• New Twitter proprietor Elon Musk is bringing engineers from his different companies to work on the social community.
• Insider beforehand reported that Tesla engineers are reviewing current Twitter code. 
• Tesla engineers have little expertise designing for social media and use a special programming language, CNBC reported.

As the brand new proprietor of Twitter, Elon Musk has been bringing in engineers from his different companies to assessment code that runs the social media platform — however these he has tapped for the job have little to no expertise within the enviornment and use a special programming language, CNBC reported. 

Greater than 50 Tesla employees, two Boring Firm employees, and one Neuralink worker have been tapped to assessment code on the social media platform, with present Twitter staff telling CNBC that, to finish Musk’s assessment deadlines, they’re pulling 12-hour shifts, seven days every week with no communication surrounding their compensation or job safety.

Twitter, which runs utilizing publicly-facing publishing and search engine capabilities, is developed in code written in Scala, a concise 18-year-old programming language, in comparison with Python, a 31-year-old programming language that Tesla engineers are at the moment utilizing. 

One Tesla worker who was not taking part within the Twitter code assessment informed The Washington Put up the corporate’s engineers would wrestle to precisely assess current code on the social platform, which runs utilizing large-scale distributed methods which are outdoors their specialty.

The “concept of Elon being flanked by his Tesla engineers reviewing Twitter code is laughable,” the supply, who was not licensed to debate the subjects on behalf of the corporate and spoke on situation of anonymity for concern of retaliation, informed The Washington Put up.

Present Twitter staff described to CNBC working unsustainable hours in an effort to show their worth regardless of looming job cuts, whereas two Tesla staff informed the outlet they’re feeling pressured to tackle the extra work with out further pay. For the reason that acquisition, Musk has made sweeping govt layoffs and in negotiation talks with traders promised he’ll minimize 75% of current Twitter staff.

Musk and representatives for Twitter didn’t instantly reply to Insider’s requests for remark.