By your statement that the preferences of the top engineers should matters is the time where "language does matter". It matters because it's a personal choice regardless whether it is the right choice or not.
"What if the current team is terrible" is not the focused of my question hence providing an example from Colin is arguably not in the right context of this discussion and I'm going to leave it to that because there's no point to discuss as anyone could have switched the underlying technology from Java to Ruby and fire all Java developers and hire Ruby developers.
Colin is a very specific example that is written by the man himself. The justification is sound. Having said that, I could pick some obscure language tomorrow (not that Clojure is these days) and forces my own preferences to go forward as long as I can reach the goal and claim in an article how my personal preferences were the best thing as well even though it may not be the case.
But nobody knows the truth... right?
I'm not trying to be negative here but at the same time no human willing to admit his/her mistakes to be honest. Especially when there are plenty at stakes.
"What if the current team is terrible" is not the focused of my question hence providing an example from Colin is arguably not in the right context of this discussion and I'm going to leave it to that because there's no point to discuss as anyone could have switched the underlying technology from Java to Ruby and fire all Java developers and hire Ruby developers.
Colin is a very specific example that is written by the man himself. The justification is sound. Having said that, I could pick some obscure language tomorrow (not that Clojure is these days) and forces my own preferences to go forward as long as I can reach the goal and claim in an article how my personal preferences were the best thing as well even though it may not be the case.
But nobody knows the truth... right?
I'm not trying to be negative here but at the same time no human willing to admit his/her mistakes to be honest. Especially when there are plenty at stakes.