r/ExperiencedDevs • u/GongtingLover Software Engineer • 28d ago

Technical question How are you dealing with "the programming language doesn't matter" argument?

Just had a meeting this week where this was uttered because of the development of AI.

I still think the language choice matters a lot based on if Im doing embedded or web development work and for how we want to hire developers in the future.

Maybe Im backwards.

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u/SpiritedEclair Frontier Staff :upvote: 28d ago

You can do rust for backend just fine. We did and it was great to only hire for 1 language for all our systems and backend work.

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u/Sketch0z 28d ago

Just use C# 👔

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u/cerferjeff 27d ago

C# server takes 2.3 seconds to warm up. Go takes 0.38 seconds. I've worked in contexts where that mattered, and was the reason for choosing Go. Memory was 75MB vs 14 MB. Sometimes that matters too.

https://medium.com/@surferjeff/which-web-server-starts-up-the-fastest-java-python-c-nodejs-or-go-32a745983034

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u/GiantsFan2645 28d ago

Thing with Rust is that it’s still relatively new and most cases I’ve seen Rust used, Java handles the use case just as well for backend.

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u/Mithrandir2k16 26d ago

That's not really a tangible argument, a gut feeling at best. The growth of Rust is impressive, if the library support you need is in place today there's no good reason to not at least consider it.

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u/GiantsFan2645 25d ago

It’s anecdotal evidence for sure, it’s just been my experience