Yeah this is definitely a leadership mistake. It's hard to say no to people that are really enthusiast about things like this (which obviously the author is), b

Yeah this is definitely a leadership mistake. It's hard to say no to people that are really enthusiast about things like this (which obviously the author is), but its doing such a disservice to the business and their career by letting them spend so much time on this. It seems obvious from the start this is never going to go anywhere. You already are using 4 languages at this company (PHP, Go, Python, JS/TS) ? Adding another is essentially a waste of time and a huge distraction away from the core function of a engineer which is delivering value to the customer.