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"Choosing San Francisco in 2020 is like choosing Java in 2010... Proven, but makes it harder to do simple things and doesn’t give you an advantage over incumben
by paulsutter 7y ago
"Choosing San Francisco in 2020 is like choosing Java in 2010... Proven, but makes it harder to do simple things and doesn’t give you an advantage over incumbents"- Balaji S. Srinivasan
https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1149073637325979648 https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1149073637325979648
- karlp 7y agoAnd like Java you might have to take San Francisco just because that's where the money is.
- buboard 7y agoInterestingly , he lives and works there.
- acd10j 7y agoHe used to , recently got back to bangalore India for starting his own startup in robotics.
- nostrademons 7y agoAlso interesting what he suggests as the alternative - blockchain incorporation, configurable nation states, and fully-remote teams.
- buboard 7y agoI am also a fan of his YC talk https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cOubCHLXT6A https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cOubCHLXT6A
- zygimantasdev 7y agoWhat's bad about java in 2010? Java is still alive today, while Ruby with Rails were overtaken
- foxyv 7y agoEveryone wants to kill Java. However Java has the distinct advantage of an incumbent. It has enough people who know it and the support of MANY major organizations like Apache, Red Hat, Amazon and Google. The libraries available for it are enormous and it has build systems and dependency management systems coming out of its ears. Want a contractor to complete a project? If you are using Java you can get one from almost anywhere. Anything that hopes to replace Java had better come armed with a couple billion dollars and the support of thousands of engineers.