Reitter: Answering the question: "How do I develop an app for GNOME?"

It depends on your goals. Switching your "emphasis" to an untried language makes exactly as much sense as eliminating everything people liked about your product. When the goal is to become irrelevant, every choice gets easy. Likewise, when the goal is to make every choice easy, each easy choice makes you less relevant.

Staying relevant is the exception. Linux still is. C++ and even C still are. Intel, astonishingly, still is. TCP/IP is. Things don't look too good for Java or for habeas corpus. One of those will be missed even by people who say we never really had it.