Consider that HN is tightly coupled to YC and that over half of the total market cap of YC companies is from those that started with Ruby on the back-end despit

Consider that HN is tightly coupled to YC and that over half of the total market cap of YC companies is from those that started with Ruby on the back-end despite Ruby never having the number of users and “jobs” as PHP, Java, .Net, Python, C/C++, etc. Were all those devs picking Ruby instead of Java in 2010 ruining their careers? I doubt it. Were the devs picking Java instead of Ruby for their startups? Very possibly, many of them. Once your business comes into contact with the market, tool productivity matters more than popularity. Popularity can affect productivity, but at the end of the day, it’s the productivity that matters. See: https://twitter.com/logicmason/status/1371255029412233218 https://twitter.com/logicmason/status/1371255029412233218