[hexbinencoded]

I left Ruby because the performance and security weren't improving and the community was slowly dying. I delved into Go before that got flooded with newbs, then looked at Crystal and Pony, before settling on Rust and Haskell for most things.

[shawxe]

I see comments like this often and I find them deeply confusing. To me, it seems like most of the different programming/scripting languages you've listed excel at completely different things. I would be curious to hear what type of work you're doing where all of these languages have been, in some form or another, appropriate.

[nurettin]

How do you choose all this? I haven't been able to make a single decision for what language to use at work for the past 15 years. I thought wouldn't touch C#, ruby, delphi, kotlin and python but it all happened because someone was paying.

[vivab0rg]

> I haven't been able to make a single decision for what language to use at work for the past 15 years.

Hello PHP.

[joelbluminator]

In 5 years I bet you'd "settle" into some other new shiny language with "better" everything. There'll be a more right tool for the job. Nothing wrong with that mentality, I just prefer to settle with my tool of choice and call it a career.