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I somewhat agree. Choosing a programming language involves only a part of the factors listed here (speed, memory, paradigm) but also community, resources, deve
by samirahmed 14y ago
I somewhat agree. Choosing a programming language involves only a part of the factors listed here (speed, memory, paradigm) but also community, resources, development time and available framework, tooling and libraries.
It is hard to quantify those through and stackoverflow posts and github repos are an insufficient metric
- fleitz 14y agoFully agree, I like the Twitter/Facebook model, write the whole thing in a god awful 'slow' language that's quick to get code out the door, then rewrite in much 'faster' languages once the feature set solidifies.