Your comment is quite unnecessarily vitriolic, but I do love the notion that it's possible to become cool by learning a new programming language.
Besides, all the common languages we use now, whether or old or new, have all gone through a phase like this. I bet people made similar commentary about C back in the day too.
The future is now, old man
It's their project so why not...
Sure, write it in anythinf, just don't give _reasons_. Tell that it's what you feel like.