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For the average user it shouldn't matter what its written in, but lately I've returned to the theory that language choice for a project signals a certain amount

For the average user it shouldn't matter what its written in, but lately I've returned to the theory that language choice for a project signals a certain amount of technical sophistication. Particularly, for things like this, which should be considered systems programming. The overhead of a slow JIT, GC, threading model, IO model, whatever basically means the project is doomed to subpar perf forever and the cost of developing it has been passed on to the users, which will be forced to buy 10x the hardware to compensate.

dspillett 5y ago
> For the average user it shouldn't matter what its written in, True. > but lately I've returned to the theory that language choice for a project signals a certain amount of technical sophistication. Sometimes it can signal the opposite, if you think a given language/framework/other is not a great tool for the job. For a relatively new project it can be a sign that there might be otherwise avoidable growing pains later. From an open source standpoint what a project is written using can be very important from the point of view of what you are familiar with. If the project progress or support vanishes (for instance if the core maintainers move on to other things for whatever reason, or there is a significant license change making future work on the core project incompatible with your use) would others be able to maintain it securely in a fork and if no one else steps up would you be able to (at least until you migrated onto something else)?