I had to pick something i was familiar with too. We need this on a shorter timeframe (when is that not true? haha), and evaluating a language is hard. As it is

I had to pick something i was familiar with too. We need this on a shorter timeframe (when is that not true? haha), and evaluating a language is hard. As it is, this was a partial reason against Rust for me. After my time learning Rust, i'm still not 100% confident in my ability on it. My lack of experience and thusly productivity-hit is a real factor i had to calculate. Moreso with the rest of the team. With Scala/etc i would be learning it new myself, and it was a gamble i wasn't going to take. Especially because our application is not intensive to specific problems that some languages excel in (concurrency, etc). I'm sticking my neck out choosing a language, so i wanted to be quite sure i make the right choice for us. Well, as best i can - i am new in this shop after all.. i hope i made the right one :)