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Not just karma, too many lazy engineers choose their stack almost solely on a quick scan on HN to see what's cool. You can date many startups by first looking
by john-waterwood 12y ago
Not just karma, too many lazy engineers choose their stack almost solely on a quick scan on HN to see what's cool.
You can date many startups by first looking at their stack, and then checking when that stack was cool here.
- romanovcode 12y agoNot only here but in general "coolness" is one of the main factors for choosing tech in startups. 2008 - So did you rewrite your PHP apps in Ruby? 2012 - So did you rewrite your Ruby apps in Node? 2015 - So did you rewrite your Node apps in Go?
- tsax 12y agoI'd dispute the 2015 one. There have been lots of Go related articles on HN, but Go usually gets a mixed reception.
- remarkEon 12y agoI think it would actually be pretty interesting to do some kind of visualization over time with popularity of languages and mentions on forums like this.