[coolliquidcode]

I think sometimes it's a good idea to use a language the company doesn't use internally to prototype. Like we don't use python or node in production, but a lot of stuff can be POCed in those languages/frameworks without a learning curve.

It forces you to throw out the old code and forces you to think the problem out in different ways.

Also, in my experience the POC does enough that it turns into just use POC because of the illusion that it would be faster to use than to rewrite. Then it's a span of time fighting edge cases and added features thought of afterwords till it passes all testing. Then you have a battle tested piece of code you can't get rid of, difficult to understand, and ridged for changes.