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I work at a small company writing NLP R&D software. Our core in-house codebase is entirely Java. There is no "enterprise mindset" here; in fact, many of the e

I work at a small company writing NLP R&D software. Our core in-house codebase is entirely Java. There is no "enterprise mindset" here; in fact, many of the engineers make fun of that mindset. Choice of language only affects your culture if you believe choice of language affects your culture and let it happen.

rattray 11y ago
> Choice of language only affects your culture if you believe choice of language affects your culture and let it happen. I would disagree with that. I just came from a startup on .NET. The develop/build/test/deploy cycles were really slow (mostly due to tooling/infra, not the language), which meant devs didn't ship frequently and didn't test their code much. That affected the culture quite a bit: no rapid experimentation means no hacker mentality. It may be that you can develop rapidly with C# or Java (I just wouldn't know, I haven't ever used either in a highly-productive environment) but if they hold you back from shipping quickly, they hold you back from the hacker/startup mentality.