a bit of inside knowledge here of multiple recent acquisitions and acquisition talks: being in an acquirer's preferred language definitely helps. as everybody m

a bit of inside knowledge here of multiple recent acquisitions and acquisition talks: being in an acquirer's preferred language definitely helps. as everybody mentioned, there are dozens of factors that can be more important -- you can't argue with 100 million users. but given situation (a) where you're written in PHP and situation (b) where you're written with GWT or in python, all other things held equal, Google will value your startup much more highly with their preferred languages.