This makes sense until I need to find a new job in 18 months.
https://expatsoftware.com/articles/happiness-is-a-boring-sta...
If it’s Somebody Else’s Money paying for the development, go nuts with whatever crazy tech their 19 year old CTO wants to roll with. Hopefully they have a VC holding the bag to subsidise the ride.
But when it’s your stuff, and it’s your weekends you’ll lose when it breaks, use something solid to build it.
There is some impunity going on where the people making these kind of decisions in some companies when things fall down they just blame it on something else and switch jobs, and now you're stuck with mongodb or a django where somebody thought using sqlalchemy instead of the ORM was a good idea or a monorepo with all company's frontend code and its 14Gb of source code for scripts to make the tooling work in such monstrosity.
There are three classes of companies: ones who haven't tried having a buffet of technologies, ones who already have and ones who are recovering.
By the time new languages become the new industry standard, most developers will have had plenty of time to learn them. I've never heard of an industry change that happened so fast that it made the majority of working programmers obsolete in 18 months.
In this light, PHP coders are real commodities. They are paid lowly, treated as expendable, and get no respect by peers. I think they're going down the same path of "HTML experts" which were once lucrative business in early 1990s.
Java/C++ programmers fare better because (I guess) there is some fundamental difficulty to be proficient at them. So, despite being old and boring, being good at Java or C(++) is still a good business.
Learning Go/Rust is another way to avoid being a commodity. Although they have a smaller job market, employers need to treat you with respect, because they can't easily find another worker with a matched skill in the market.
https://boards.greenhouse.io/spacex/jobs/4747757002?gh_jid=4...