[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Do people care about the language used to de...
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       Ask HN: Do people care about the language used to develop new
       products?
        
       More and more I see posts that look like this: "<this>, written in
       <this language>" Do you people actually care about the language in
       which any product is written? Shouldn't be the product all that
       matter?
        
       Author : frizlab
       Score  : 3 points
       Date   : 2022-02-20 21:24 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
       | ozzythecat wrote:
       | As a technical leader, I view this in terms of costs. If most of
       | my teams know how to write, build, and deploy in X, I prefer that
       | language over Y. If X is tedious to write, debug, or someone has
       | to become a ninja in building and deploying, perhaps X is less
       | attractive.
       | 
       | And of course, we also must consider if the language is a good
       | candidate for specific problem being solved.
       | 
       | We wrote mobile logic in C++, primarily so we could easily port
       | it between iOS and a different Linux device.
        
       | detaro wrote:
       | the audience here is not just or even predominantly "users
       | looking for products"
        
       | PaulHoule wrote:
       | If it is an open source project I will modify then it matters a
       | great deal. (E.g. looking at static site generators I like Hugo
       | but something Python based would let me incorporate a lot of code
       | that already exists.)
        
       | dpeck wrote:
       | No, no one cares generally, but people who are involved or
       | heavily invested in an ecosystem may be interested in new
       | libraries/tools in that ecosystem.
        
       | __d wrote:
       | Absolutely.
       | 
       | When I'm evaluating a product, the language it's written in gives
       | me some insight into what areas I need to investigate further,
       | what questions to ask the vendor, etc.
       | 
       | So, if something's written with, say PERL, I'm going to be
       | concerned about maintenance and reliability. If it's written in
       | Python, I'm going to drill into the runtime performance and
       | reliability more. If it's in C++, I might be looking at their
       | development velocity.
       | 
       | Everything's a tradeoff, and so long as those tradeoffs are
       | addressed then it's fine. The language just gives me a better
       | idea about where to delve more attentively.
        
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