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Are there any examples of companies that achieved success by way of language choice other than Viaweb?
by nate_martin 11y ago
Are there any examples of companies that achieved success by way of language choice other than Viaweb?
- biot 11y agoWhatsApp is a good contender: http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/2/26/the-whatsapp-architecture-facebook-bought-for-19-billion.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/2/26/the-whatsapp-archi...
- ced 11y agoOrbitz tackled a hard technical problem with Common Lisp. I don't know if it was the "secret weapon", but it must have been fairly critical. They needed efficiency. http://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html http://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html
- xiaoma 11y ago37signals / Basecamp
- incepted 11y agoViaweb is not even an example of that. They're a startup that succeeded while using a niche language. That's correlation, not causation, despite everything pg says.
- e12e 11y agoI always thought dabbledb[1] was a good example of choosing Smalltalk. Sadly the product died, after the team moved to Twitter. Still not sure why they didn't just open up the source. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wZmYMWKLkY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wZmYMWKLkY
- notahacker 11y agoI understand Lisp was pretty critical to ITA software's approach to solving hard technical problems