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The language is less important than the supporting tooling. IMHO we are just now, a decade later, seeing frameworks crop up in node that look anything like the
by cloverich 5y ago
The language is less important than the supporting tooling. IMHO we are just now, a decade later, seeing frameworks crop up in node that look anything like the out of the box usefulness that was the rails and django apps I was first exposed to. My honest opinion from several startups is that most sub ten year vets just don’t know that stuff existed already and / or just how much you can ask of your tech stack. I generally agree with your point though.
- midrus 5y ago100% this. I've always said that the ecosystem, the tooling, the editor support, the libraries, the frameworks and the availability of people to hire are far more important than the language. For example it irks me when people say they like react because jsx or Vue because templates...that's the smallest of the reasons to choose one or another!!! Same thing with Rails/Laravel/etc...people don't choose it because PHP or because Ruby , etc...the language doesn't matter at all, the tooling does matter it all.
- cutler 5y agoPaul Graham, founder of YC would disagree. He claimed Common Lisp was the secret weapon behind Viaweb's success.