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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up ... by kyriakos on Sunday June 03, 2018 @04:27AM (#17218539)
There are many successful companies and start ups that use PHP. The same way they exist for other languages and platforms.

No start up became a unicorn because of the programming language they used.

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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up ... by cutler on Sunday June 03, 2018 @10:22AM (#17219648)
With the possible exception of Clojure :). See Paul Graham on Lisp as the secret weapon.
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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up ... by KingMob on Monday June 04, 2018 @03:00PM (#17230976)
What's the biggest Clojure start-up at the moment? Is it CircleCI?

Wal-Mart is pretty big into Clojure these days, but they were already huge.

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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up ... by cutler on Monday June 04, 2018 @08:27PM (#17233945)
Here in London there's Funding Circle and uSwitch. The Daily Mail (MailOnline) also uses quite a lot of Clojure.
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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up ... by alfredallan1 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @10:45AM (#17219764)
Whatsapp.
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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up ... by kyriakos on Sunday June 03, 2018 @01:29PM (#17220598)
whats whatsapp built on?
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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up ... by scns on Monday June 04, 2018 @03:40PM (#17231467)
Erlang and FreeBSD
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