I did not expect to see big-company apologia on Hacker News.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apologia

The thing this (very good) post doesn't mention is that big companies select for blub languages because that's where the most low-cost labor is, in that you can hire multiple Java developers for the cost of one Haskell developer, even if Haskell might be objectively a better choice for the project.

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Etheryte 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't think this is a charitable interpretation. As a business, you need to be able to backfill positions or hire more when the need arises. If you use a language that's very commonly used, it's a lot easier to hire. There isn't anything sinister to that, it's simply reasonable.

	▲	anonymars 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There was a post, I think on the Uber engineering blog, that stuck with me. It essentially boiled down to: it's easier to change the tech stack than the hiring pool, and talked about deliberately setting something up that was technically less optimal but easier to hire for Corollary: it's perhaps easier to throw money at fancier hardware to improve performance, than the alternatives