[quietplatypus]

Bravo. Saving this comment.

For substance: Consider how this is all part of the effort by management to make programmers feel as interchangeable and insignificant as possible.

And it's not even in the name of quality. Plenty of software out there breaks because of its multiple single points of failure in the form of dependencies.

[pjlegato]

Yes, totally. I can understand why management does this. Coders have a very high turnover rate as a profession. When your genius Clojure or Rust programmer leaves, it's much harder and more expensive to find a replacement than when your PHP or Rails programmer quits.

This then incentivizes new coders to take up one of the popular languages, because that's what most of the advertised jobs are for, creating a self-reinforcing positive feedback loop.