I hear this mentality a lot, but I wonder how true it is in practice. The pool of engineers who are experienced with your stack will be bigger if you pick a "w

I hear this mentality a lot, but I wonder how true it is in practice. The pool of engineers who are experienced with your stack will be bigger if you pick a "winning" or "popular" stack. But in my experience at Big Co, the stack is as often proprietary as not, yet Big Co can attract talent anyway. Having lived through transitions from Popular Stack Today to Popular Stack Next more than once, I have yet to go through the experience thinking that the upgrade path is easy. Proto-jQuery to jQuery, jQuery to Backbone, Backbone to Angular, Angular to React, React to other React-like things... these frameworks were all "winners," but I can't describe the upgrade path without using the word "rewrite."