[Sohcahtoa82]

> The language you're writing in has next to no meaningful impact on long term maintenance.

I disagree.

If you abandon a large block of code for a year, then come back to it, depending on the language, it may be difficult to grok what the code was doing and how it worked.

If it's Java, the tendency to create 100 levels of abstraction make it hard to reason about. If it's Python without type annotations, then your IDE may not be able to determine the types of variables, so it's difficult to determine what can be done with an object.

If it's Perl, then God help you. May He have mercy on your soul.