[lmeyerov]

No, it is, how hard is it to hire 3 elixer devs at given quality and do an elastic sprint as 6.. 3 years from now. And what is the chance the dependency chain hasn't rotted.

The million means you arent scrambling . Hiring in niche stuff even for 1 person stinks. Replacing/maintaining dead frameworks is 10x+ worse than writing the original.

When you can find and just drop someone in the same/next week and it's not all cruft... And you're sure that'll be true next year too... That's boring code. Super destressor for everyone as folks can easily scale up / down, take paternal leave, onboard junior /senior folks same-day, etc, and not worry about ecosystem churn.

Ex: It's a world of diff when we hire folks to write our django pieces vs GLSL engine, and both of those ecosystems are big. Just django is the way bigger and thus more stress free. When you go down to niche langs with niche frameworks.. unless there is a good reason, I don't want to be in that company nor bet on it 2-4yr from now. For us, we do GPU everything, so careful parts of our stack are weird and constant careful effort, and we try to limit it to just those.