Developer here. I suppose the simple answer is that this was a personal/side project at my job and I picked the language I most enjoy. Additionally, I've been

Developer here. I suppose the simple answer is that this was a personal/side project at my job and I picked the language I most enjoy. Additionally, I've been hacking on a couple of libraries for writing web apps for the last few years and wanted the chance to hone them on something non-trivial.