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I used to like OO, but ever since I got a taste of functional programming with Elixir, I haven’t looked back. It’s a very elegant language and an absolute joy to program in.

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What are your thoughts on Go/Rust? Node.js? Node.js with Typescript?

Typing is kind of a pain in the butt, it does buy you I would say 20% but when your paradigm is "code the happy path, let it fail if there's a screwup, you'll find it and fix it in another release, it won't bring down the server, the world will still be there", runtime typing errors aren't horrible. Dialyzer for erlang/elixir is quite nice and brings the delta even lower, if you must need type analysis.

Go's type system is atrocious, try multiplying a time interval by an user-input integer. You can't do it. That aside, Go is a fairly good programming language, and I especially like using it for CLIs since there's cross platform guarantee.

I dunno, to me it makes perfect sense that you would need to convert it to a duration.

time.Second * time.Duration(userInputInt)

the units on that would be time squared. As a scientist, this makes my brain explode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensional_analysis

For the record, at least two languages, F# (which is statically typed) and Julia (which is strongly typed) do this 100% correctly

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