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>These platforms were purpose built for performance, concurrency, resiliency, and availability. Given advancements in the programming space, we wanted to see what languages best suited our reliability and performance needs. We also needed something that fit modern infrastructure and design patterns.

>As such, we launched an effort to evaluate different languages.

I feel the purpose of a payment network is performance, concurrency, resiliency, and availability, and somewhere, wayyy towards the bottom of the list, at 2px font size, modernity and extensibility are there.