Oh, I'm completely happy to roll all of "tooling, libraries, community" into "language". It matters a ton which one you choose! But we're not disagreeing here.

Oh, I'm completely happy to roll all of "tooling, libraries, community" into "language". It matters a ton which one you choose! But we're not disagreeing here. The relative merits of all these factors are expensive as hell to compare. I'd love to have a longer discussion with you sometime around abstractions and algorithms, though. I think I have a few points on the side of abstractions that pass far beyond mere maintainability, but I also really empathize with your argument. So, it'd be interesting to flesh it all out.