Thanks for sharing this! I first read about the "secret sauce" from Paul Graham referring to his use of Lisp with Viaweb, but have been somewhat suspicious. Yes

Thanks for sharing this! I first read about the "secret sauce" from Paul Graham referring to his use of Lisp with Viaweb, but have been somewhat suspicious. Yes JVM performance & scalability is necessary for some applications like twitter, but surely the industry should see 90% of standard business software is fine in other languages. Is everything really driven that much by market hype? I guess hiring is critical too.