What's the point of developing stuff in the first place? To make the world a better place, to learn things, to grow. Will that be accomplished so much better by switching from Perl to ASP to Ruby on Rails to Node.js to Go?
Look, there will always be a new tool|library|framework|language|paradigm that is cooler and better. If you pick the coolest language available today, you will be "so 2014" in a few years.
We need to be more pragmatic and use the tools that make our mission easier. Sometimes that mandates a complete rewrite in a new language|framework, but that is rare.
What the article calls "revolutionizing" is really not that big a deal. Maybe it makes things a bit easier, faster, prettier -- but it won't make or break your company.
Look, there will always be a new tool|library|framework|language|paradigm that is cooler and better. If you pick the coolest language available today, you will be "so 2014" in a few years.
We need to be more pragmatic and use the tools that make our mission easier. Sometimes that mandates a complete rewrite in a new language|framework, but that is rare.
What the article calls "revolutionizing" is really not that big a deal. Maybe it makes things a bit easier, faster, prettier -- but it won't make or break your company.