I'm reminded of the trend of starting systems in Lisp (I believe this included reddit) and then rewriting in Python.
Maybe the Blub paradox has been hitting its limits. The point of using leftfield expressive languages was that developer time is orders of magnitude more expensive than machine chugging time. But maybe web-scale-big-data-etc. needs enough (latency) juice that the scales tip and the comparative advantage is clearly on the side of adopting "industrial-strength" enterprisey technologies again.
Maybe the Blub paradox has been hitting its limits. The point of using leftfield expressive languages was that developer time is orders of magnitude more expensive than machine chugging time. But maybe web-scale-big-data-etc. needs enough (latency) juice that the scales tip and the comparative advantage is clearly on the side of adopting "industrial-strength" enterprisey technologies again.