[sangnoir]

Not for their sake - for mine. I avoid people and places that make my life unnecessarily difficult, especially if I have to do support and can be called at 3am to resolve urgent issues.

My needs are pretty basic: I like code that is easy to understand and easy to change more than writing code that leaves a smug smile on my face. I read more code than I write, so YMMV.

The fewer surprises, the better for me, and so far, the collaborative codebases I've encountered the least number of surprises have consistently been in Go (the other languages I've been paid to work with are Javascript, Perl, Python, Java, and Scala).