> There's nothing stopping this developer from taking the requirements of the project and developing a solution from the ground-up in their language of choice o

> There's nothing stopping this developer from taking the requirements of the project and developing a solution from the ground-up in their language of choice over the course of a couple weeks. I can practically guarantee (and the OP strongly implies it) that the problem with this project is not that it is hard to implement, but that its requirements are unspecified. Rewriting it in a fancy feel-good language changes exactly nothing and should be treated as an act of sabotage, because it is exactly that.