Thats where "used to" makes a huge difference. I remember when the industry standard was to use c++ or java. Using a language like python meant that you were "e

Thats where "used to" makes a huge difference. I remember when the industry standard was to use c++ or java. Using a language like python meant that you were "edgy" or "hip." This was back when Paul Graham really started pushing for acceptance of "hacker" languages (like common lisp or python) when ycombinator was just getting started. He did A lot to increase acceptance of languages outside c,c++, java Now that python is mainstream, other languages stand in to say "I like to learn languages for reasons other than earning a paycheck" examples coming to my mind include Haskell, rust or elixir.