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What is the best way to confront this problem? On paper languages like Rust, Elixir/Erlang, and Haskell stand out in non-trivial ways from other languages but a
by alephu5 6y ago
What is the best way to confront this problem? On paper languages like Rust, Elixir/Erlang, and Haskell stand out in non-trivial ways from other languages but as you say they require a considerable investment to evaluate properly. Either you risk years of wasted effort or potentially missing out on a game-changing tool.
- sobani 6y agoLet others evaluate the language for you. Unless a feature of the language is game-changing for you. This might mean it solves a problem that would be very hard to solve otherwise or it might mean it looks very interesting to you. Which I think is good advice with anything that requires you to be an early adoptor.