[devdude1337]

I had a client that enforced writing every customer facing software in C++14. In 2024 they suddenly need to support various web technologies and modern web infrastructure. They still rely on their language limitations and don’t get stuff done any longer.

I advised to use Go and most developers were interested and even enthusiastic about it. We proved Go introduction by using it for simulators and testing. But finally the tech lead said "we will never ship anything different than C++ written applications".

My current client also works in embedded tech, but I proposed a polyglot approach and architecture. We ship apps in Go, Rust, C, C++ and even Fortran. Any developer can pick up any language as long as it compiles to Armhf. No one has a problem reading and at least maintaining any code.

There should only be technical limitations and constraints to force down your fellow developers.

Frameworks are a different topic. Web frameworks come and go, and most Angular shops I know became desperate legacy plumbing shops. Only use frameworks that you can replace easily or are willing and capable to maintain yourself.

[cratermoon]

Very typical and probably the most important takeaway: these things are almost never decided by technical merit.

Almost any organization, once it reaches a certain size, ends up thinking about standardizing on languages and technologies, and put in place certain systems to support the preferred choices and discourage others.

Whenever the subject is revisited, it tends to end up as a political fight at the management level, and technical folks don't have much say. Even when a company does have set standards, if the project is important enough to be visible at a high enough level, the technology choice can go against the standards.

In one case I'm aware of, a shop that was heavily Microsoft/C#/TS/Azure chose Go and K8S for a high-visibility project, despite almost no one in the company knowing those technologies, and the few who did could not be pulled away from their existing work.