Yeah, it seems like he was referring more to bike-shedding than anything. Focus on the efficient, meta-goal, and make efficient choices for the highest value.

Yeah, it seems like he was referring more to bike-shedding than anything. Focus on the efficient, meta-goal, and make efficient choices for the highest value. In this case, since the entirety of the project is to be written in a specific language, it's usually worthy of placing that in the more macro-category - where that choice affects all other decisions. Don't spend 4 hours of your time on a `for` loop but half an hour of your time deciding on the language and architecture.