Comment Re:Prototyping and Small Projects (Score 1) 206
but they will eventually switch to something else as the technology evolves, or the needs of the site change, and so on.
Unless the language is open source, and then you can change the language and frameworks to meet your needs instead of rewriting in a new language for 1 feature. Or being forced to throw up your hands when you find what seems to be a language or framework bug, versus being able to dig into the source, confirm it, and submit a patch.
Not saying changing languages is never the right solution, but with open source there are more options. That is actually how Facebook is still using PHP.
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=2356432130
http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/358