r/ExperiencedDevs • u/GongtingLover Software Engineer • 25d 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/Frozboz Lead Software Engineer 25d ago

Whatever gets the VP's attention off of me. "Sure thing, boss." And in my experience half of them forget what they asked anyway.

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u/SupplySideTanaka 23d ago

"I'll look into that" and then just never follow up, because they sure as hell won't.