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This. I really only bother touching languages with good to great IDE experiences which is why I basically concentrated on JVM tech for most of my career. The go
by meddlepal 8y ago
This. I really only bother touching languages with good to great IDE experiences which is why I basically concentrated on JVM tech for most of my career. The good news is that the tools story is improving across all languages these days.
- kleiba 8y agoIn other words, you're intenionally limiting your horizon because of convenience?
- meddlepal 8y agoNot really practically but yes in theory? The JVM is host to many languages with different paradigms and it is not like I don't futz around with other stuff. I refuse to write serious code in poorly tooled languages and at this point in my career there are also some areas of exploration I just don't care about (e.g. machine level programming with ASM or C/C++ and web dev with JavaScript).
- kleiba 8y agoAh, okay. What I didn't quite get from your original post was that you were talking about professional-level coding. That makes sense, I guess.
- geezerjay 8y agoTo be fair, life is indeed too short to waste it trying to wrangle unusable tools, particularly when potential gains are slim to none.