Static typing and inference aside, I find that his arguments about language verbosity and character count utterly without evidence. A quick review of the startu

Static typing and inference aside, I find that his arguments about language verbosity and character count utterly without evidence. A quick review of the startup scene will show a wide mix of programming languages, including a lot of Java. It’s fine if that’s his preference, but the argument that the best programmers (“hackers” in his parlance) prefer what he prefers to be both self serving and contrary to actual real world evidence.