There's a pretty big principle-agent problem for these kinds of decisions, too. Choosing a programming language has an effect on the implementing employees' res

There's a pretty big principle-agent problem for these kinds of decisions, too. Choosing a programming language has an effect on the implementing employees' resume strength, not just on the end result that they provide for the company. A symptom of this is having a startup that uses more programming languages in production code than programmers.