Leaning harder to use better programming languages and tools. So many devs I know would much rather be using something else, but just go along with using whatever is popular.
This takes effort in both convincing and in putting in the extra work to make it work smoothly because it isn't a beaten path, but if the choice isn't superficial it will more than pay for itself.
Even when you don't dictate the specific language used, you can still strongly influence the style of program composition so that it has less mutable state or distantly-coupled behaviour and the like so that it works like a better language than if you didn't.
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Leaning harder to use better programming languages and tools. So many devs I know would much rather be using something else, but just go along with using whatever is popular.
This takes effort in both convincing and in putting in the extra work to make it work smoothly because it isn't a beaten path, but if the choice isn't superficial it will more than pay for itself.
Even when you don't dictate the specific language used, you can still strongly influence the style of program composition so that it has less mutable state or distantly-coupled behaviour and the like so that it works like a better language than if you didn't.