[meddlepal]

This. I really only bother touching languages with good to great IDE experiences which is why I basically concentrated on JVM tech for most of my career. The good news is that the tools story is improving across all languages these days.

[kleiba]

In other words, you're intenionally limiting your horizon because of convenience?

[meddlepal]

Not really practically but yes in theory? The JVM is host to many languages with different paradigms and it is not like I don't futz around with other stuff. I refuse to write serious code in poorly tooled languages and at this point in my career there are also some areas of exploration I just don't care about (e.g. machine level programming with ASM or C/C++ and web dev with JavaScript).

[kleiba]

Ah, okay. What I didn't quite get from your original post was that you were talking about professional-level coding. That makes sense, I guess.

[geezerjay]

To be fair, life is indeed too short to waste it trying to wrangle unusable tools, particularly when potential gains are slim to none.