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Today's startups are, mostly, tomorrow's failed businesses. The majority of the most successful startups of the last 15 years have generally used tried-and-true
by sidlls 10y ago
Today's startups are, mostly, tomorrow's failed businesses. The majority of the most successful startups of the last 15 years have generally used tried-and-true battle tested technologies in their successes: Java, C, C++ and PHP.
This isn't to say Go doesn't belong in that list, but simply to reinforce my point that what startups are using today shouldn't be an indicator of high quality technology that can (or should) gain more traction and use in the future.
- jpgvm 10y agoAnd Ruby. Ruby is basically the new Java. As in it's no longer cool but is considered battletested and is now at the core of 10+ year old companies with code bases just as old that noone enjoys working on anymore.
- sidlls 10y agoThat may be, in which case Python belongs in the same bucket. I'm not convinced, actually. Most of the "ruby shops" I know use it only for the most trivial of applications, being essentially rest-like proxies between clients and Java (or other language) services. But I don't know everything and anecdotes aren't data for sure.