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you misunderstand the meaning of startups. Startups, at core, are not about rebuilding the same stuff by combining existing solutions but about building novel s

• bitwize 8y ago
  Indeed. As a startup ypu want to build as little as possible tgat's already been built -- so you want the language/framework that has the biggest most accessible ecosystem, so that you can focus on building things unique to your line of business.
  • vseloved 8y ago
    That's not unique to startup - I'd say it's even more relevant to regular "corporate" software development, no? What's unique to real startups (for my definition of "real": the ones that solve yet unsolved technically challenging problems) is: even though you may be better off using a good ready-made infrastructure, that doesn't change the game for you as your competitors also have access to it. While using a conceptually different (more powerful?) toolset might give you an edge over the competitors and a chance to indeed solve the problem you're after. Just yesterday I talked about this: https://www.slideshare.net/vseloved/lisp-in-a-startup-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly https://www.slideshare.net/vseloved/lisp-in-a-startup-the-go...