[morganerouvroy]

Java was the baseline for this project, yes. The post is really about how we looked at the trade-offs, not about locking in a language choice forever.

For what it’s worth, the team isn’t Java-only either: some of us have spent a lot of time in C or C++ before, and others were already very comfortable with Java. The question here was mostly whether bringing in a new production language made sense at that stage of the project.