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and they're using that very un-hip microsoft .net

• freehunter 8y ago
  Which goes to show that the answer to "what technology should I use to start my startup in [current year]" is always "the one you know best" since Joel was a former Microsoft employee before starting Stack Overflow and his other projects.
• pradn 8y ago
  C#/.NET can be super fun and productive. Use what you know.
• hansflying 8y ago
  C# is great. It's a high level programming language and it's also super-fast handling ~7.000.000 requests per second on a single server according to the following benchmark: https://www.ageofascent.com/2019/02/04/asp-net-core-saturating-10gbe-at-7-million-requests-per-second/ https://www.ageofascent.com/2019/02/04/asp-net-core-saturati...
• sergiotapia 8y ago
  C# was great in 2008, then it got kind of enterprisey and closed - not it's ridiculous and getting steam into all avenues of software engineering. It's arguably the most powerful language in the world.
  • manigandham 8y ago
    How is it closed? It's now better than ever with the new cross-platform .NET Core with all kinds of runtime and language advancements.
    • sergiotapia 8y ago
      s/not/now
• gameswithgo 8y ago
  in the past two years .NET has become (normally/probably) the best performing GC runtime out there. With some nice features as well, and a better cross platform story. hipness has increased