> In my experience, decisions on > language choice in most of the big > > tech companies are generally bottoms up. The company often won't have any > oversight on language choice. I've seen people in big tech companies consider > not going with Rust because they were worried about the size of the talent > pool. But those were individuals making a choice, not some edict from the top.
We've had very different experience working at tech companies then. As soon as our CTO was hired at the start up I work at, he basically said to introduce a new PL besides Elixir would require an extremely well thought out reason. That's been pretty much every job I've worked at since starting to code in 2009. I've never been hired to evangelize the use of a new language, always just to come in and build things with those listed in the job description/ requirements.
