For a small, one person project you can use absolutely any language and feel great about yourself and the language. It's like a stroll in a park - you can do it

For a small, one person project you can use absolutely any language and feel great about yourself and the language. It's like a stroll in a park - you can do it in any shoes, or even barefoot. Where language matters are thousands or million lines of code projects, with multiple teams and people of varying experience and abilities, coming and leaving. With stupidly short deadlines and changing business requirements. With liabilities, support, maintenance, budget, time-to-market, etc. Then it's like climbing Mt. Everest, in a snowstorm, with limited supplies and low team morale. This whole article is just "mom look, I can walk". I come to HN to hear a "I've survived hell and here is how my shoes did" story.