I've used scala and erlang professionally; I have nothing against learning new languages. My comment was not really meant as seriously as the commenters here a

I've used scala and erlang professionally; I have nothing against learning new languages. My comment was not really meant as seriously as the commenters here are taking it (I really didn't mean to infer anything about users of those..) -- but I also sort of stand by it -- I spent lots of time in stupid meetings about language features when I used those languages that I would have rather avoided. It's of course not the languages fault, and more likely a smell of an org problem at wherever it was I was working back then (201x's). It's completely true that I don't know rust; I tried, and $dayjob does use it for some components but it seems to be really overloaded with syntax and symbols to me -- then again I'm a dinosaur who started on C and maybe I'm just getting old....