I'd actually like to see more mixed shops. I proposed this once, but the idea got shot down. This was at a time when we were having a very hard time recruitin

I'd actually like to see more mixed shops. I proposed this once, but the idea got shot down. This was at a time when we were having a very hard time recruiting good developers for the technologies we were using. IMO there's not enough difference between well-written Ruby / Python / PHP / JavaScript etc. to make a big fuss about it. It's pretty well documented / understood how one would decouple the backend by simply interfacing your front end with a RESTful API backend. That and the fact that it's become relatively clear to me that the present and the future of the web is in rich client architecture.