When to use a new programming language

New programming language keep appearing on the horizon and lot of tech journalists cover them with passion. It creates an aura around them, you can love them hate them, but you can not ignore them. Often a question arises when should I use it, so I can be part of cool kids club.

Learning them as hobby is perhaps an easy intercept, write some cool sample code to learn about internals of the language and tooling around it. With some introductory knowledge try to find an interesting open source project using this language, and it can be mutually beneficial where I learn some new stuff about the language and contribute the code to the project. You can also see practically where this language is used and quirks around it. It is a quick way to ramp up practical programming skills.

If you are decision maker for a professional project around such decisions. It is entirely different story. We will discuss more on it in future