I don't think "being like Java" is all that important. These slight variations between related languages are easy to learn. I know a lot of people put a lot of

I don't think "being like Java" is all that important. These slight variations between related languages are easy to learn. I know a lot of people put a lot of importance on it, but I find the language the least interesting part of programming. Recently someone suggested rewriting our Node.js backend in Python. I've never worked in Python (except the few times I helped my son with his homework), but I'm all for it (as soon as we have some room in our planning, which we currently don't). It's a great opportunity to learn something new. Although apparently it's because other teams in our current department (we've moved around a bit) also use Python on the backend, and they want to be able to move programmers around between projects, but then I wonder if those programmers understand the concepts behind our application, because that's the interesting part of programming.