I'm pretty similar. People like to ask "why should I use <insert language>?" I never really think about it too much - I don't pull out my weights and measures

I'm pretty similar. People like to ask "why should I use <insert language>?" I never really think about it too much - I don't pull out my weights and measures, and say "well, language X is 83.72% optimal for the problem, but language Y is 91.22% optimal, obviously using language X is a huge mistake!" If something is obviously better for a problem, I'll pick that language. But if you have to dig too deeply into what language to use, the language probably doesn't actually matter that much. I was "raised" on OOP, and I "got" it, but I've always preferred more standard procedural programming. I prefer Go over Java, and C over C++. I like FP more than procedural programming. I prefer Elixir and Haskell over Go. I like Lispy languages more than other languages. I prefer Clojure over Elixir and Haskell.