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Re:Ask HN: New OSS Projects: Go or Java? by benologist on Monday September 19, 2016 @03:26PM (#12534002)
I think you should decide what your single most important goal is:

1) launch a project

2) learn a language

Learning a new language will derail your project completion and launch indefinitely, often permanently.

Re:Ask HN: New OSS Projects: Go or Java? by kt9 on Monday September 19, 2016 @03:39PM (#12534092)
This is actually a great point.
Re:Ask HN: New OSS Projects: Go or Java? by rplst8 on Monday September 19, 2016 @03:55PM (#12534198)
Totally. IMO it's equivalent to deciding whether to write a book in your native language or in another language you don't speak because they have more words in the domain of the book's topic.
Re:Ask HN: New OSS Projects: Go or Java? by lord_braleigh on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @12:05PM (#12549452)
You wrote this in English? What kind of comment-writer are you? English has so many spelling inconsistencies and homonyms it's a wonder that anyone can understand anyone else. Everyone knows that real authors write in Spanish. Neruda, Borges, Márquez. Spanish's clear pronunciation rules, elegant conjugations, and separation of mutable state (`estar`) from immutable state (`ser`) ensure you'll never run into any dangerous misunderstandings. Consider this sentence:

    "¡Hola, mundo!"
Note that the sentence is one character shorter than the corresponding phrase in english (`"Hello, world!"`) - this kind of efficiency is quite common when you write in Spanish. Also note that the extra space won by removing a character was then used to add a pre-exclamation flag (`¡`). This flag is a neat optimization to ensure that the interpreter knows to prepare for an exclamation ahead of time.

Better interpretation, pronunciation, efficiency. Why are you not writing Spanish today?