[lambdasquirrel]

Saying that gear doesn't matter is like old fogey programmers saying that programming languages don't matter. A good programmer can wrangle code in anything reasonably practical. And I say that as one of those old fogey programmers.

I mean c'mon, look at Golang. It is not a good language[0][1]. And yet, folks built k8s with it, and many other things.

It's like that with photographic gear too. Just like the best camera is the one you have, the best language is the one that all your domain experts can use. And if they're good at knowledge and design, but shitty at programming, golang it will be.

But it's also worth noting that k8s was not written in C++. Tools matter.

[0] https://yager.io/programming/go.html [1] https://xetera.dev/thoughts-on-go/

[ilyt]

Still, if you're shit at the job the best tools won't help that.