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As much as I like Lisp, I don't think your choice of language will make or break your startup.
by didibus 9y ago
As much as I like Lisp, I don't think your choice of language will make or break your startup.
- coldtea 9y agoIf anything, a study of actual successful startups, will show that it's almost irrelevant, as their stacks are all over the map.
- cobbzilla 9y agosure, within reason. I wouldn't try to build a product in a language where the available labor pool is tiny given the problem domain. For example, don't build an enterprise SaaS platform in pure x86 assembly; don't write device drivers in Delphi.
- FeepingCreature 9y agoEeeh. Having a small but not tiny labor pool can be beneficial in that the programmers you get are probably better than average, since average people don't tend to learn off-path languages.
- cobbzilla 9y agoRare skills tend towards the expensive, either in money or time-to-recruit, or both. It can sometimes be worth it for specialist tasks, but I'd be cautious.
- agumonkey 9y agofew times I've read that lisp is on the edge, if your project doesn't need wild experiments you won't benefit, but when you do (a bit like other language, haskell) you'll see exponential returns
- hnzix 9y agoI worked at failed SaaS startup where the pointy haired boss insisted we use Java because there was lots of grads who knew it. At some point it took forever to wade through the boilerplate (and questionable grad code) to add a feature. This kills the startup. I think this says less about the language, and more about the kind of talent you will attract based on your language choice.