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> My hot take about most dynamic languages is that they are a poor fit for startups who have intentions of being long-term businesses The classic rebuttal to t
by danpalmer 5y ago
> My hot take about most dynamic languages is that they are a poor fit for startups who have intentions of being long-term businesses
The classic rebuttal to this is that the company needs the best chance of surviving today, and can fix it tomorrow.
There are problems with this approach, it's definitely harder to fix these problems later, but "at scale" is that really a problem? The big problem is getting to the scale, surviving long enough.