[notacoward]

> if you use it all on your own you don't even see the problems

100x this. If >90% of your serious coding is in one language, you'll become desensitized to its bad parts but you'll be hyper sensitive to anything that seems inconvenient in any alternative. I've seen this over the years with Fortran and C coders. C++ coders do it to C all the time. Lisp coders are notorious for it. It's Selective Perception 101, counting the hits and ignoring the misses. We're all prone to it, and have to correct for it.

If you really want to compare any two languages, you have to give both a more than casual try, and keep an open mind throughout. Otherwise your conclusions are likely to be unhelpful at best.

[andi999]

One can even think of long compile times as a feature (more time for coffee breaks), well or that nightly builds sounds actually cool.