[srdev]

Great performance, a massive community, top tier support by partners and vendors, deep talent pool, and a huge ecosystem of libraries and products. Nothing else even comes close.

People have a tendency to trash talk it for being verbose, but writing the code is a vanishingly small portion of the engineering effort, and if you're hand wringing about whether it's fun to write then you're optimizing for the wrong things.

[maxlybbert]

> if you're hand wringing about whether it's fun to write then you're optimizing for the wrong things

It's hard to imagine what kind of career that attitude would lead to. I very much worry about whether things are fun to write. And I've been lucky that, so far, I've had jobs that were very fun. Not necessarily easy, but fun.

[srdev]

I guess it depends on how much writing the actual code factors into your enjoyment. Most people I know enjoy building systems. Working with a boilerplate-heavy language is a minor annoyance in the grand scheme of things, and is balanced out by having a robust ecosystem to build their product in.