[sd9]

It was clear that the language was Clojure by the middle of the third paragraph.

Rust and Clojure are the only languages that always come with unsolicited sales pitches. Not knocking the languages, just observing.

I was half expecting this comment to end without actually naming the language.

[m1n1]

I have a friend who told me two separate times without promoting about how great a particular brand of guitar strings are... Both times I reminded him I don't know how to play any instrument.

Sorry. I almost resisted naming the language. But what got to me was my co-worker's complaint was about the very tech that made it possible to launch + save $x mil + save some nights and weekends and holidays for a handful of other devs.

And that the complaint was: the language choice makes it less maintainable (hiring pool is smaller) -- but the two factors I mentioned above actually contribute greatly to maintainability.

My original comment could have just been: "a production support tool can be a place to prototype new features."

And _other_ teams could have used other tech to solve the problem. But for the team that had the context and the responsibility, this was the highest probability shot. After hitting the target, a complaint was not the expectation.

Down votes are interesting when applied to a comment that's an answer to a direct question. (this isn't directed at sd9)

[digging]

> Down votes are interesting when applied to a comment that's an answer to a direct question.

I suspect it's because your answer was indirect and had a fairly proselytizing tone. I found the information interesting, but it was a somewhat irritating read because it was inverted to demand attention, like a story, rather than being upfront. A better-received comment might have read more like:

"I used Clojure. This was mainly because it's my favorite language, so I could work faster in it, and because it has certain features which make debugging extremely fast. et cetera."

[sd9]

For what it's worth, I enjoyed your tale, and I like Clojure

[trevor-e]

The downvotes I'm assuming are because you replied 303 words to a simple question, with the actual answer at the very end which is frustrating to readers. Not saying what you mentioned wasn't interesting though.