By Adam Gordon Bell - Software Developer
Published December 18, 2018 7:00am
Which operating system is the best? Which programming language is the best? What text editor?
Bryan Cantrill, CTO of Joyent says that is the wrong question. Languages, operating systems and communities have to make trade offs and they do that based on their values. So the right language is the one who's values align with you and your projects goals.
This simple idea carries a lot of weight and I think has the potential to lift up technical discussions to a higher level of discourse. You will find it to be a helpful frame next...