> The organizations I've worked with has usually judged a language based on itself, not what the current developers know, as learning a new language tends to no

> The organizations I've worked with has usually judged a language based on itself, not what the current developers know, as learning a new language tends to not be overly difficult Can you say more about these companies, and their long term successes with these tools? For example, I worked in the same place for 5 years now, and we picked a new language for a project someone wrote largely themselves. I supported them on it, they left, and now I am stuck maintaining a deprecated version of a language I don't know, on a program of middling code quality written in a non-idiomatic fashion without many useful comments because the author themself was learning and hacking along the way. I think for someone like you to say something like this and also say "freelancing/consulting" is a red flag, it's really easy to recommend "this language will work for this project", have the prototype work, get paid, leave, and not see the long term effects of throwing another area of required expertise onto the laps of the poor people stuck to maintain your decisions.