> Half-measures seem wasteful. I would be very very cautious about this line of reasoning. It can work for certain situations, but there are enough tradeoffs a

> Half-measures seem wasteful. I would be very very cautious about this line of reasoning. It can work for certain situations, but there are enough tradeoffs and exceptions that I am hesitant to recommend this as a general rule of thumb. The ability to incrementalize risk (JS code snippets on the web just work, the compilation target is trivial to deduce, runtime characteristics do not change, no need to write wrapper code to consume npm packages, etc) instead of taking a lump sum hit to your novelty budget is valuable. Not always overwhelmingly so, but enough to give me pause.