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This is interesting from a 30,000 foot view, but without knowing the details on the companies and how they are using the language it is hard to draw conclusions
by gbourne 5y ago
This is interesting from a 30,000 foot view, but without knowing the details on the companies and how they are using the language it is hard to draw conclusions.
For example:
- As many pointed out, are the majority of PHP just default Wordpress sites? I would rather know who built in a given language rather than installed a site that happens to use a language.
- I use to be in the banking world and it as all Java (or C++ for algo trading, Scala for data processing, but never NodeJS), but I haven't seen many new startups using Java unless the founders came from banking. The industry made a difference.
- How old is the company - a 30+ old company might have Perl.
Also, a bit surprised at Javascript, AKA NodeJs. I thought it would be higher.
- jonwinstanley 5y agoThe people who start their company with wordpress aren't programmers. They are entrepreneurs looking to build a website for close to $0. It's only later when they grow they hire a developer and by that point they may be committed to PHP due to the sunk costs.