I would've chosen Java because it's faster than Python and is good for string manipulation. My cousin would've chosen Brainfuck because he's really good at it. Alas, this discussion is useless because none of us are the one who spent the effort to write the Makefile formatter and linter, we can only bikeshed all day about what decisions we would've taken

For the 100th time, I was responding to "[...] python and it is easy to do string manipulation with.". Perl is way better to do string processing in than Java, too, FWIW.

My comment has absolutely nothing to do with this project or its author, nor the language he has chosen. See the other comments in this thread.