The argument was made from devops perspective. Which means, no GC is a show stopper. So that eliminates C/C++. Heck the whole point of languages like Perl was C

The argument was made from devops perspective. Which means, no GC is a show stopper. So that eliminates C/C++. Heck the whole point of languages like Perl was C/C++ had huge practical limitations as languages when one wants to get work done quickly. Also Java never really worked in Devops. You need to a lot of ceremony to just open files and do simple regex work. Unfortunately Python went down the same path.