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Thanks for The writeup, I am going through a similar process. I just retired last Friday (I am an old guy) from managing a machine learning team and everything

Thanks for The writeup, I am going through a similar process. I just retired last Friday (I am an old guy) from managing a machine learning team and everything was done in Python. For personal projects (and past consulting work) I have been loving Lisp languages since the 1980s but many languages have so many of the benefits of Lisp (thinking of Haskell and Julia) and there is definitely a ‘lisp tax’ on deploying and shipping products. Anyway, for writing new books, writing open source projects, and perhaps some consulting, I would like to cut back to a single language, instead of the 4 or 5 I use now. EDIT: I did some Go Lang codelabs when I worked at Google and have played with Rust (principally spending some evenings with an open source blockchain project) and neither language will be my home base language.

dangoor 8y ago
Congrats on your retirement! And enjoy your opportunity to work with whatever languages you like. The variety of tools available today is so much greater than it was in the 80s.
pdimitar 8y ago
If I retired today I'd try really hard to only use Elixir and OCaml. Elixir is perfect for servers and fault-tolerance. Also scales quite well to several tens of machines before needing any special tooling. For a huge percent of most projects today Elixir would be ideal. OCaml I want to use more for its really concise and strict (but extensible) syntax. And mostly for its strong typing and really well-optimized compiled native code. Congratulations on retirement, relax and tinker at your own pace. ^_^