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by josephg 1175 days ago
Maybe. But that can also be a self tightening knot. Sometimes there’s no elegant place to cleave a program or library in two, and you really just want to pick a single language for the whole project.

Mixing languages can also be a bit of a disaster for maintainability. Refactoring codebases which meaningfully span multiple languages is miserable work.