what PG said about time to market is most part of the article IMO. what is the time to market, how long does it take to cold start a project from zero to mvp. sadly our ideals as SE might not be able to match that reality always. As much as we like to pretend that we know what is the best stack , at the end of the day it is the market / customer / client who votes with their money bloat , lean , fast , slow , typed , etc none of it matters if nobody buys your solution. in 2013 is when there was a huge shift in enterprise to be more open OSS until then enterprise would only use solutions from the catalog of either oracle or microsoft .