But implementation language is also predictive of the values and style likely to be embraced by a project. I found my current job (as Square) because in 2015, I

But implementation language is also predictive of the values and style likely to be embraced by a project. I found my current job (as Square) because in 2015, I got on the Atlanta 404 Slack, and asked “Who in Atlanta is doing interesting things in Go?” For Go, that has diluted over time as Go has become more of a default choice, but in 2015, it was highly predictive of a certain sort of work and a certain mindset. And, in some domains (version control is one of them; type checkers/linters/bundlers/compilers are another), it has proven to be extremely important.