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I don't believe they were implying they would make the decision. It's expensive to have your team learn new skills from scratch, and management won't want to pay for that if they don't have to.

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This is indeed what I meant. Thanks for stating it with more clarity than I was able to.

I have been coding for 30 years now and I have never encountered a technical decision like choosing technology (e.g. Electron) for anything important to the company being made with "oh, we must use X because so and so knows X"

Maybe if there was a toss-up between X and Y or something like that but to flat-out pick Electron because you have people that knows JS is madness

I'm thirty+ years in too, and it happens all the time - particularly in smaller operations. Resourcing constraints, disinclination to provide training, tight deadlines, etc.

so interesting!! and scary :)

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