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If your company code only uses JavaScript his awnser was not wrong. Keeping the social cost down, eg: no js dev needs to understand java.
If there are speed advantages or good reasons to choose another language then the current stack your company uses, then no one should have anything to complain about.
For example JS sucks with recursion stacktraces and general debugging with breakpoints if its transpiled, if it is something your application will need you have you definitly want to use another language. -
@Hammster my company is really really big, even on our team we use a few languages so not sure where his argument came from...
I can't share it but I basically just wrote an email at work that's pretty much a rant.
Basically something like should we use Java for this new component? It needs to communicate with our existing server written in JS.
And someone was like no we should stick with JS and Node because that's what the website is written.
And so I'm like wtf... It doesn't matter as long as everyone agrees to follow the same rules... And then added a part about commenting and documenting stuff being more important so I don't need to keep doing CSI on the codebase when something blows up.
rant