On the one hand, it's good to continually look for ways to code elegantly in the place you find yourself. On the other hand, there's no shame in keeping it simple and programming in a way that is mutually recognizable across a number of languages. If the language-neutral version is hard to understand and you learn a better way in the language, just refactor it. Changing to something simpler and smaller is generally safer than the long slow trudge in the other direction that any code base tends to make over the years. :) I never saw much point in someone saying "I'm a C# developer" or "I'm a Java developer" or "I'm a C++ developer", like a single platform was a career or something. A successful career will outlive anything specific we know. The real deal is in a deep understanding of the patterns of design and usage that apply across platforms and being curious enough to learn what you would use to express them on several common ones and at least one emerging one.
