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Contributing to a project probably on the first week: As in after code-review it will get merged and pushed to production.

The problem is you're going to be slow until you get comfortable with the language, so it does take its toll on development speed. It's also harder to estimate and schedule since you have to take your own learning into account.

I find that it takes me a couple months to feel comfortable if I like the language (Golang) but with ones I don't (PHP) it always feels like a slog. To each their own here though.




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