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I don’t understand why people focus on being an “X language developer” Wouldn’t you care more about what problem domain you’re working on and base your career

• exdsq 5y ago
  For some people (me included, sometimes) the language is the domain they're interested in
• dnautics 5y ago
  > To me languages are just implementation details Most elixir devs would disagree. Ergonomics are important. Not saying that elixir is perfect, God knows there are warts that I will gripe about if you ask me, but it is much easier to make progress in a language when you aren't worried about footguns and crazy levels defensive programming, or worrying about if someone else's code on the other side of the project is not sufficiently isolated from the code you're pushing. If you're coming to your job every day with an "oh god do I have to do this today" attitude you will run into progress resistance... And most of us work in domains where this shit attacks us every day in ways that we have no control over ("wtf this 3rd party graphql query path has a misspelling", "wtf my teammate pushed this spaghetti code 4 months ago?" e.g.) that you really don't want your language shitting in the pool on you.