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by lilactown 3072 days ago
IMO, we should focus more on standardizing on runtimes rather than language. Languages evolve, and new ones come out that solve problems better. We luckily live in an age where many of those languages can interop at the runtime level.

As a developer, and as a team, it sucks to be told "you must use Java and JavaScript for time immemorial." An easy compromise is that any package/library/service/etc. must target the JVM or JavaScript VM and provide interop with existing code.