Because that was what the main developer and founder Jeff Atwood was familiar with. And he really liked the stack. > Atwood: We are not personally going to be

Because that was what the main developer and founder Jeff Atwood was familiar with. And he really liked the stack. > Atwood: We are not personally going to be language agnostic, because we need to actually build the site. And in terms of people actually working on it, Joel's in an advisory role, I'm gonna be writing code, and then a friend of mine, Jarrod, I'll be working very closely with. So it's sort of like 1.5 developers, so I need to actually get things done. In order to do that, I'm gonna fall back on what I know, and what I know is essentially ASP.NET. So ASP.NET is gonna be the platform. And I actually really like ASP.NET. Episode 003 April 29, 2008, from the StackOverflow podcast. https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W56 https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W56 Analysis from 2008 about Scaling Up / Out. Electricity also is something you can't ignore. https://blog.codinghorror.com/scaling-up-vs-scaling-out-hidden-costs/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/scaling-up-vs-scaling-out-hidd... Ah, sorry, this is a discussion about SQL Server being expensive rather than .NET stack.