> 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.