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Re:Why We’re Sticking with Ruby on Rails at Gitlab by dragonwriter on Monday June 13, 2022 @01:19PM (#31728532)
> I think those sort of companies don't understand that once you grok 2-3 languages, the rest of them mostly look/work the same

I mean, if you know 2-3, say, static class-based OOP languages, other static, class-based OOP languages mostly look/work the same.

If you know 3+ languages with wildly divergent paradigms, you can probably pick up most new languages even if they don't look/work the same.

But if you know 2-3 closely related languages, one that isn't closely related to those 2-3 can be problematic.

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Re:Why We’re Sticking with Ruby on Rails at Gitlab by capableweb on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @04:50AM (#31736316)
> But if you know 2-3 closely related languages, one that isn't closely related to those 2-3 can be problematic.

Indeed. Not sure if you left it out on purpose, but my comment included (right after the part you quoted) the following: "(except the really different ones)", which covers exactly what you're talking about :)

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