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This sounds like to me you are mistaking the popularity of PHP with the proficiency of the developers. PHP has been around a long time and is used by lots of pe
by hueving 10y ago
This sounds like to me you are mistaking the popularity of PHP with the proficiency of the developers. PHP has been around a long time and is used by lots of people. Even if PHP projects only have a 1% success rate and haskell projects have a 20% success rate, guess which one will have more "successful projects".
- bbcbasic 10y agoI think the point is that for most "tech startups" they are marketing-first and tech-second. If PHP gets you to first base (MVP) in 10% of the time than NiceLangX then you get 10 X more chances to throw shit at the wall and see what sticks.
- candiodari 10y agoBut that assumes this is the goal. The real goal is to get a nice looking CV with all the "advanced" entries, not to actually have a useful product or -god save us from this evil- an actual business.
- bbcbasic 10y agoTouche! Although probably not if you are the founder. Maybe for employee #1.
- hueving 10y agoRight, but the point I was making is that it isn't necessarily true that PHP is any better at getting to MVP based on number of successful projects alone.
- chiefalchemist 10y agoI think the point is, PHP won't kill you. It might be bad. But it is not in and of itself deadly.