news.ycombinator.com• May 8, 2015• 1 min read
Ask HN: Advice choosing a general purpose language for the future?I have spent the majority of my career so far building large scale enterprise Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence solutions on the Microsoft SQL Server stack.In my spare time I have managed to learn some Python which I have used for small pet projects. (I also managed to find time to do a Python Programmer certification through the O'Reilly School of Technology)I want to break out of the pure Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence space but keep finding myself jumping between different programming languages. I have actively tried to avoid C# as I feel that I do not want to tie my skill set completely to Microsoft technology.I like Python a lot but truly dislike the fact that I cannot "compile" projects into executable solutions for Windows at times. Similarly it can’t be effectively used for mobile app development. (C# with Xamarin seems to make sense here.) However Python does seem to play really well with a lot of the different Cloud platforms out there, especially Google's Cl