No, the real question is whether it provides that greater value for a reasonably acceptable, commensurate effort. Looking for greater value with less effort is looking for a free lunch, and we all know TANSTAAFL.
> Looking for greater value with less effort is looking for a free lunch
If you have to switch languages to get that value, then no, this has nothing to do with free lunches.
> and we all know TANSTAAFL.
The church of the acronym. I do not share your apparent faith. Engineering requires you to actually do the work and not rely on simple aphorisms to make decisions.
> reasonably acceptable
Have fun defining that in an open source project.
> Looking for greater value with less effort is looking for a free lunch
If you have to switch languages to get that value, then no, this has nothing to do with free lunches.
> and we all know TANSTAAFL.
The church of the acronym. I do not share your apparent faith. Engineering requires you to actually do the work and not rely on simple aphorisms to make decisions.