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by Someone 42 days ago
> Choosing a programming language is not a business requirement; it's a technical one.

Not solely. The business will have reasons to stay on a mainstream language, for example because

- it offers better guarantees for hiring maintainers in the future

- it has a higher likelihood that security issues will be fixed rapidly for free

- LLMs are better at maintaining code written in it