It does feel like this whole concept is predicated on chasing the new hotness in languages or frameworks.
In practice, if you’re thinking of changing at that level, the problem probably lies elsewhere. Unless your app is some special snowflake (note: 99.99% aren’t), any of the popular languages/frameworks will do just fine for a very long time.
The only move Sivers arguably needed to make here was away from Perl. To Ruby, PHP or JavaScript, but not all 3.
If those extra moves hadn’t happened, this wouldn’t even be a thing.
In practice, if you’re thinking of changing at that level, the problem probably lies elsewhere. Unless your app is some special snowflake (note: 99.99% aren’t), any of the popular languages/frameworks will do just fine for a very long time.
The only move Sivers arguably needed to make here was away from Perl. To Ruby, PHP or JavaScript, but not all 3.
If those extra moves hadn’t happened, this wouldn’t even be a thing.