I still learn a bit from those sorts of debates. But for me they're meaningless because what I need from a language has nothing to do with nerd debate hour. I n

I still learn a bit from those sorts of debates. But for me they're meaningless because what I need from a language has nothing to do with nerd debate hour. I need a job, so it has to be out there, not just in my city but small cities in case I move. Next I care about good tooling. Otherwise the only debate I feel strongly enough is static vs dynamic typing, and that's mostly because I don't think I'm a good enough programmer to build a 500KLOC+ application without compile time type guarantees. Give me a language with the above 3 things and I think we have a deal, and all of them are about making my life easier.