such a good question! I don't think I've ever had a particularly strong guttural reaction to a language, but I'm definitively biased and either see things that

such a good question! I don't think I've ever had a particularly strong guttural reaction to a language, but I'm definitively biased and either see things that I quite like or dislike in a new language I see. As I think about why those are I think one of the biggest reasons is familiarity, it's easy to get comfortable doing one thing and it truly sucks to feel like you don't know anything again (I think somebody called this the curse of knowledge? Idk). Lately I've been intentionally the unknown, or, those languages that I'd look at and be like, "but why!?", for example, why would I want to learn or only use recursion when a for/while has worked for pretty much my whole career? or, following the same functional languages traits, why immutable data? seems like a step backwards? But the thing is that people, quite likely smarter than me, or at least, a lot more familiar with challenges that I'm not familiar with, came up with solutions that diverge from what I know... and I want to know why! Why they came with immutable data or recursion or a language that pretty much everything is a list (LISP)... and the answers are quite surprising and at the same time I feel that joy of discovery that has almost been erased by years in the industry. So when you come across a language that you have strong feelings/opinions about, wearing the shoes of the people using it might be quite enlightening and enjoyable. While I say this, I'm a complete hypocrite because I won't give such courtesy to OOP... but hey, none of us are perfect ;-)