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we use C/C++ for everything. This includes things like command-line tools and documentation generators which would be tempting to write in a scripting language,

• pure-struggle 4y ago
  Yesh...
• selfhoster11 4y ago
  What's wrong with that?
  • contingencies 4y ago
    String work in C for starters. Commonly accepted best practice is to use the least powerful language for any given problem. This is so it's (a) readable (b) portable (c) nominally secure (d) preserving of programmer time. While there are exceptions, their reasons are questionable at best. It seems more like a declaration of a cultish C culture. Which, in context, is probably attractive to some of the people they're looking for, but hideously backward by general standards. Use the right tool for the job.
• Yax 4y ago
  From business point of view it might be a good solution to stick to only one language in stack.