You will have to close that IT-only part of your brain for a moment, and keep in mind that people create software for a reason. And every nascent project lives or dies by how promptly it adapts against incorrect assumptions or changes in the environment.
Difference in hardware costs do not even enter into the radar. They happen in a different universe that good decision making completely ignores at this point.
After you have a proper solution to a problem, and enough scale so that it's worthwhile to collect those gains, you move your software to another language. It's not a big deal.
You will have to close that IT-only part of your brain for a moment, and keep in mind that people create software for a reason. And every nascent project lives or dies by how promptly it adapts against incorrect assumptions or changes in the environment.
Difference in hardware costs do not even enter into the radar. They happen in a different universe that good decision making completely ignores at this point.
After you have a proper solution to a problem, and enough scale so that it's worthwhile to collect those gains, you move your software to another language. It's not a big deal.