Comment by flohofwoe

Have you ever had to maintain a code base with more then a few hundred thousand lines of code across Flash, Javascript, iOS, Android, PC, OSX, Xbox, PS, Wii, Vita, NintendoDS, ...and whatever other gaming platform is popular at the moment? The "popular platform of the day" changes a lot faster then being able to write new code for it. You need to support that new platform within 3 months or less. Good luck rewriting your entire code base into another language in that time ;)