> Apart from anything, you should be using these most popular technologies if only for the sake of recruiting. There's actually a tricky tradeoff here. Many st

> Apart from anything, you should be using these most popular technologies if only for the sake of recruiting. There's actually a tricky tradeoff here. Many startups working on hard problems can benefit from making one weird technology choice, if it offers them some kind of significant leverage on a previously difficult technical problem. But when it comes to recruiting, it can actually be an advantage to be using a slightly obscure language. Often, these languages have communities of very skilled early adopters who wish they could use their favorite language at their day job. And especially if your company has a strong remote culture, this may make it possible to hire some extremely talented people. I do agree that, on average, a company's overall tech choices should be mostly boring. But knowing when a lesser-known tool will offer a big advantage is an art, and it can pay off.