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Until your boss or client thinks it's a good idea. :)

You have only one job, and that's to do what the client wants. It doesn't matter what language that is in. And you're free to leave whenever you want.

What is the weather like on the Planet of the Obscure Language Clients? Is there any way I can book passage there?

Why, if I had a nickel every time I was forced to turn down a client who demanded the project be done in Clojure, Scheme, Haskell, Pogoscript, or Brainfuck... I would have zero cents.

Then you've got a shitty boss or client if they're forcing this completely unknown and unsupported language on you.

I think you addressed the point I wanted to make better than I could myself with the words "unknown" and "unsupported".

Come on. Every project has to start somewhere.

True. I have no opinion on this project, apart from being impressed by someone making their own x-compile-to-JS language.

But a boss shouldn't _force_ something this immature onto their devs.

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