I'm not a developer and I think the question makes sense. I would have given a similar response to what amag wrote, although I would have skipped this bit: "Mos

I'm not a developer and I think the question makes sense. I would have given a similar response to what amag wrote, although I would have skipped this bit: "Most likely you'll spend weeks looking for a multitude of weird bugs that seemingly appear at different places out of nowhere, only happens sometimes and never in debug builds." It's pretty clearly a conversation starter and there are lots of valid ways to answer the question. > If I had this question dropped at me, my hunch would be that the interviewer had a slightly inflated idea of their own knowledge of the language and would likely not take kindly to being taken down. That might well colour my take on the answer. If the interviewer responds poorly to this kind of answer then I don't want to work there anyway. Also, this kind of answer is not "taking down" anyone.