I'm sure a proficient Java dev can be very productive, but it would take quite a lot longer to turn a Python dev into a productive Java dev than into a productive Go dev. I don't think this is controversial, but it's not really relevant to my point either way.
> but it would take quite a lot longer to turn a Python dev into a productive Java dev than into a productive Go dev.
I'm really not sure about that. That said it seems you don't really want to discuss this further which is totally OK with me :-)
For others who wonder, my points are only that:
- I was a person who was strongly opinionated against Java and for Python and basically everything else (at that point I had been programming on and off for 10 years)
- Actually becoming productive with Java took a week and the big thing was culture.
