Ask HN: Right tool for right job or for the right brain?
* Interpreted (aka REPL) vs compiled languages
* Strictly typed versus dynamically typed
* Curly braces versus indentation
* Functional versus Object-oriented programming
* Verbose and explicit versus terse and implicit
These binary choices and preferences are feeding raging flamewars for decades and will likely continue, maybe forever?
Sometimes the wise argument deployed to lower the heat is: use the right tool for the right job. There is definitely a lot of truth in that.
But what if actually different people have different neural types and its also a case of the right tool for the right brain?
Maybe if we can identify how people internalize code we will find out that there are different types of people and there is no more point to force a certain approach to programming than arguing about taste in food.
If so, people could save enormous heartburn and teams could organize much better if they knew what type of developer everybody is.
Not to mention we could spare a lot of internet bandwidth.