If you are doing a side project you can choose between solving a real problem or learning new tech. It is hard to do both simultaneously in the time that most p

If you are doing a side project you can choose between solving a real problem or learning new tech. It is hard to do both simultaneously in the time that most people give to side projects. Hell its hard even if you are full time. Learning new tech in a side project is a worthy thing to do and I have built some nice little toy Haskell, Elm, JS and Java projects. However I am more productive in my usual C#, so if I wanted to get something done quick e.g. an MVP website, I'd probably that would be the best choice despite the advantages of other languages. E.g. PHP -> cheap shared hosting, easy to deploy, Haskell -> Excellent type system, find most bugs at compile time, etc. One exception is I recently want to scrape the HN Api sequentially with multiple requests at a time, and I found this easier on Node.js than C#, because I could be sure I wouldn't get exceptions saying my threadpool has run out of threads etc. :-)