Comment by throwawaymaths

I'm actually suffering from the opposite problem. CTO is a well known Gooby developer. But we wrote everything in C++ because "it will be easier to hire down the line", pulling in well known C++ libraries by various bigcos that actually don't compose together and make a royal mess of the codebase. We've missed every single deadline, and are light years behind where we should be.

Honestly we should have written it in C, but I'm too far down the totem pole to make that call