I've always figured you can ignore the features of a language that you don't like, but a drawback of a giant language is that it's hard for beginners to read code, or to make sense of tutorials that all use different ways of doing something.
You can always put extra features into a library, and identify certain libraries as "standard." So it seems reasonable to demand that actual language changes are limited to those where the readability benefit outweighs the need for everybody to learn the new feature in order to read code.
As mentioned in other posts, a huge sprawling language makes it hard to gauge whether someone is proficient in a language when applying for a job. I don't really know how important that should be.
In my case, I got a low score on a Python knowledge test because I've been programming in Python for a decade but haven't kept up with the latest features. Not that I'm looking for a job, but I was just curious, and it was part of figuring out what kind of training I should get.
I'd written C# and python as a student, but Go was the first language I worked with professionally. I cannot overstate how much relatively easy learning and reading new code was as a beginner, because of how there's often only one or two valid ways to solve a given problem, so knowledge/context often easily transferred between different tutorials and codebases.
You can always put extra features into a library, and identify certain libraries as "standard." So it seems reasonable to demand that actual language changes are limited to those where the readability benefit outweighs the need for everybody to learn the new feature in order to read code.
As mentioned in other posts, a huge sprawling language makes it hard to gauge whether someone is proficient in a language when applying for a job. I don't really know how important that should be.
In my case, I got a low score on a Python knowledge test because I've been programming in Python for a decade but haven't kept up with the latest features. Not that I'm looking for a job, but I was just curious, and it was part of figuring out what kind of training I should get.