> The real problem with languages these days is people conflate personal preference with irrefutable fact. This bears repeating. I've found language preference

> The real problem with languages these days is people conflate personal preference with irrefutable fact. This bears repeating. I've found language preference and style depends a huge amount on education, language exposure, and even neurotypes. For example, personally I dislike keeping pieces of state in my head. I have gravitated towards a very functional style, eschew OOP, short functions, lots of static typing. I need it to stay sane. My kryptonite is long, scripty things with tons of mutable state and magic. Some people can work like that. They can keep a big chunk of varying state in their head. I don't proscribe that either type is better (though the former is much more approachable for those new to the codebase). It's just different tradeoffs.