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May I know what you built and they're building? Maybe different product easier with different tech stack? I use Scala because Google App Engine didn't support

• 20years 10y ago
  Both SaaS apps. Different markets but one of mine is similar in complexity to theirs. They could have launched a year ago if they were not wasting time re-writing the app in Angular 2 & 4 and spending time open sourcing Angular libraries. I personally do not want to spend time re-writing my app every 6 months before it is even launched. I would much rather spend the time acquiring customers. I tend to choose a stack at least to start that I know I won't need to re-write in 6 months. Unless of course it needs to be re-written/refactored to accommodate all those customers knocking at my door ;) That generally means I stay away from the front-end flavor of the week when starting a new app. Don't get me wrong, I myself have used Angular and Vue for a couple of projects but not in the beginning and not for the core product. I don't like the instability and constant changes of a lot of the newer frameworks.
• jdavis703 10y ago
  I think the lesson here is use what tools you already know, and are intimately familiar with. There's no reason it takes two years to launch an Angular app, unless you keep updating to use all the latest and greatest features and versions. The same goes for an old workhorse technology like PHP, avoid using the new stuff in favor of proven frameworks and patterns.