I bet your startup has bigger problems than the software platform. Solving a problem in a new platform takes around 5x the time it takes to do it in a known pla

I bet your startup has bigger problems than the software platform. Solving a problem in a new platform takes around 5x the time it takes to do it in a known platform. And this delay can easily kill a startup. Worry about the platform later and it's not like they're building it in COBOL. There are plenty of PHP programmers around. Even Facebook is running PHP.