[rifung]

I don't necessarily only want to work in only one language, but I certainly enjoy working in some languages more than others. That being the case, all else being equal, between two jobs I would choose the one with the language I prefer.

It's kind of like.. employee benefits I guess? If I am going to have to spend most of my life programming I'd rather do it in a less painful way.

>what if, in order to scale, a different language is more appropriate and you hired only Python experts?

I don't think this is really an issue. Just because someone is a Python expert doesn't imply that the person doesn't know its good and bad parts. If anything they might understand the limitations even better and know when it's time to switch.

[BinaryIdiot]

Fair enough

> I don't think this is really an issue. Just because someone is a Python expert doesn't imply that the person doesn't know its good and bad parts. If anything they might understand the limitations even better and know when it's time to switch.

While I completely agree with you, in theory, I've never actually experienced this. My anecdotal experience with people who tend to become experts with a specific language has almost always been them trying to force it for every single use case.

I'm hoping my personal experience is less indicative of the industry in general but I really have no data to go off of beyond it.

[smarinov]

My experience shows that good developers are usually (always?) open for discussion, no matter how many languages they consider themselves to know well. Needless to say, these people aren't nearly as many as we want them to be…