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Most starts ups aren't using C++. 90% of starts up do the "latest compile-to-JS language" thing.
by UK-AL 13y ago
Most starts ups aren't using C++. 90% of starts up do the "latest compile-to-JS language" thing.
- adamnemecek 13y agoWell AFAIK FB uses C++ and they are mentioned as one of the companies using these hiring practices.
- UK-AL 13y agoI would not call Facebook a start up anymore. They are creating their own VMs and Database systems. Most start ups don't do that. Unless that's the product.
- adamnemecek 13y agoWell I didn't call them a startup. And they are creating their own VMs and DBs which is even more reason not to hire only devs who are fresh out of school.
- UK-AL 13y agoI did specifically state start ups. I don't live in san fransico/silicon valley, but where I live the vast majority of developers are working for small start ups and small businesses and not the facebooks of the world.
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- freyrs3 13y ago> 90% of starts up do the "latest compile-to-JS language" thing. Sounds like an accurate statistical sampling to me.
- UK-AL 13y agoIts not meant to be accurate sampling, its hyperbole to prove a point. But you can see for yourself. Have a look at most jobs at start ups, they're always javascript/ruby/python/fancy new framework or mobile apps to reinvent online shopping or web site analytics or something.
- freyrs3 13y agoYou characterize the popular startup languages as being "compile-to-JS" to prove that they're all mostly in the family of dynamic scripting languages?
- UK-AL 13y agoNo. To state they are mostly trend based, and superficial.
- throwaway5752 13y agoHey, leave Python out of it :)
- na85 13y agoThat's because 90% of startups have only the most shallow bit of innovation going on, but they want to seem hip and au currant. So they use whatever the latest angular clone is.
- invalidOrTaken 13y agoI think a much more charitable interpretation flies: there is a reason people invent new technology (it's better on at least one dimension than the old), and startups aren't held back by legacy considerations.