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by coldtea 2991 days ago
>For 100s to 1000s of servers. The cost starts mattering.

If you need 100s to 1000s of servers you presumably already have customers and money to spend.

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To spend on rewriting the application in another language.
AKA a "nice problem to have" ("oh, we're now so successful we have to rewrite the app in another language to lower our infrastructure costs".

Most of the time you aren't gonna need it (because you wont go far anyway as a company). And when you do -- like Twitter and Facebook did, you'll be swimming in users and money already anyway...