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You sound like the pointy haired boss in the Dilbert cartoons. You admit that you're not a coder, whereas your friends are "good programmers", but you want to t
by AgentConundrum 15y ago
You sound like the pointy haired boss in the Dilbert cartoons. You admit that you're not a coder, whereas your friends are "good programmers", but you want to throw away their half decade (each) of experience because you would prefer to go with a buzzword language because it sounds cooler.
If they don't have experience in these other languages, the MVP will take longer to produce and will likely be of lower quality if you just shut up and let them do what they do.
If you're not going to be coding this, or if you are but aren't going to be one of the lead programmers, then the choice of language really doesn't matter to you.
Why are you second guessing people that you admit know more about the subject than you do?
- nicenpretty 15y agoWow. Pointy hairy Dilbert boss. Now that stings. Fair enough, the argument of PHP not being cool really is silly. I get that. You are right, I was wrong. I think I was a bit too lazy when writing this. Let me elaborate a bit: I am not telling anybody to do anything because I am not their boss. I am a partner. My goal is to spark a discussions, make people look outside their comfort zone and point out that the most convenient way might not be the most rewarding in the end.
- herval 15y agoyou don't want your cofounders to go out of their "comfort zone" when it comes to learning an entirely new programming language & stack just for the sake of buzzwords AND building a startup at the same time. LAMP is a perfectly fine stack - they would have to "learn something new" if they were stuck with, say, COBOL, which is not exactly good tech for web development...