I use the JVM "as little as is absolutely necessary", which is often, thanks to technologies like Lucene, Hadoop, Storm, Zookeeper, etc. And, "code fashionista

I use the JVM "as little as is absolutely necessary", which is often, thanks to technologies like Lucene, Hadoop, Storm, Zookeeper, etc. And, "code fashionista"? Hah, give me a break. Python actually predates Java. I can't tell you how many times in the period 2005-2009 people derided me for using a "scripting" language for real work. All the "real programmers" used C++ or Java, of course! Then, in 2009-2013, everyone suddenly realizes, oh, perhaps we don't need 200 classes per 1,000 lines of code and perhaps we don't need an IDE to that vomits boilerplate all day long and perhaps static types aren't such an important thing and perhaps generics are overrated and perhaps programmer time truly is much more expensive than machine time, ... and, now I'm a "code fashionista" for still using Python for production projects, 6 years later? The "scripting" language that's so non-serious that it's used by thousands of production large-scale systems and scientists the world over? Yes, that one -- the "fashionable" language. The one that isn't fussy and just gets work done.