That reminds of a Livejournal post Ovid made about language wars, and what might be the more appropriate language. Read it in full here.

A friend of mine who I will not name worked for a company that I'm not allowed to name. This company was developing online financial management software. There was a lot of interest in this company and they had tons of venture capital pouring into them. After he discussed with me what they were doing, he mentioned that they were doing all of their development in C++. A hot product. Tons of venture capital. A growing company. I told him to find another job.

That sounds weird, but here's the rub: they couldn't compete. Their software, though it sounded exciting, was a Web application. If it really took off, any company with a grain of common sense would see the profit potential and start developing that application in a language suited for rapid development. Features my friend told me these developers took months to develop could be duplicated in weeks -- even days -- with a dynamic programming language.

After a long time trying to get their product to market they finally realized that it was taking them too long to build. After much soul searching they admitted that C++ was a bottle-neck. They switched to Java. Their domain is now for sale. My friend went on unemployment.

Is Zaxo right in sounding the alarm bell? I'm not sure. But my guts tell me something's not right.