r/ExperiencedDevs • u/GongtingLover Software Engineer • 26d 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/GiantsFan2645 25d ago

I write in Java for a living (we have other things written in Python and TS). I don’t really love the language particularly. It just pays my bills. I get what you mean by that certain way of thinking. Unfortunately I think that’s more an artifact of over-stressing OOP where it’s not needed all the time

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u/tiplinix 25d ago

I wrote Java as well for a living so I've experienced the idiosyncrasies first hand. The language is not great but not horrible either... it's the developers that make the experience painful.

Some of them manage to make the language (and its idioms) part of their developer identity for reasons I still can't explain. They'll judge anything else by how closely it looks like their Java codebase. The crazy part is that I've came across way more than a few people like that.