For your first couple programming languages, it's intimidating to learn a new language. Once you're experienced, though, you discover that its easy and quick to

For your first couple programming languages, it's intimidating to learn a new language. Once you're experienced, though, you discover that its easy and quick to pick up new languages. Because my experience is, as I related above, even though I was learning elixir (for real, I had dabbled with it before) an building a team from scratch, we delivered a product extremely fast.... because we chose elixir. It doesn't matter how well you know java, the language is going to slow down your development dramatically... at lest compared to Elixir (and maybe go.)