After careful consideration, as the article mentions, ISC decided a combination of C++ and Python as being more appropriate to the goals of the project. That being safety, stability, established familiarity, speed and of course a level of guaranteed future-proof platform availability.
Read: "This is one of the cornerstones of the internet that we didn't want to piss away on novelty".
That sounded rude, and I'm sorry for that, but I don't know how else to make that point cogent.