When you run a company and need to decide what your tech stack is, it becomes as much a question about the labor pool as it is about technology, maybe even more so.

If you choose to write your core product in a functional programming language, you now have to hire an entire team of people who can program FP. If you decide to write your core product in Javascript, Node, or Typescript, you can now hire bootcamp grads and a handful of senior engineers to keep an eye on them