Well obviously if you're willing to spend the time you can do it. The issue is that they're not willing to spend the time, given that there are so many unknown

Well obviously if you're willing to spend the time you can do it. The issue is that they're not willing to spend the time, given that there are so many unknowns and decisions that have to be made. That's a very legitimate point, given that the default attitude in most programming communities is to pretend that learning new languages is almost zero cost and pure benefit.