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2021-05-30, 11:26

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Originally Posted by Brad View Post
Pretty much all the worthwhile options around me in recent years have been Java (or Scala), Ruby, or Python, and I'll take Python from that list any day of the week. I've seen a small smattering of Node stuff and a light dusting of Go, but those have been few and far between.

Though, for a brief while in 2017 one company desperately tried to get me to write .NET 2.0 (released 2005) running on Windows Server 2008. I've not seen many dumpster fires quite as gnarly as that one.
Heh. I do still occasionally have a client call me whose stack runs on .NET 2.0 for… reasons. (Budget. It's always budget.)

I used to write some Ruby back in the 2000s, and I think it has some cute features, but I get the sense I could never go back to static typing.
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