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Re:Mistakes That Kill Startups (2006) by sk5t on Sunday April 05, 2020 @05:31PM (#22788908)
> You're lucky if it's RoR or Node; you could be stuck with Go or PHP

What the heck? My strong sense nowadays is that most junior-mid engineers would be excited to use Go and disappointed to touch Rails.

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Re:Mistakes That Kill Startups (2006) by 9nGQluzmnq3M on Sunday April 05, 2020 @07:50PM (#22789734)
It's about using the simplest thing that could possibly work, not about excitement. PHP is pathologically uncool, but it does work and it is fast for building new stuff. (God forbid you get stuck maintaining it though...)
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Re:Mistakes That Kill Startups (2006) by nine_k on Sunday April 05, 2020 @10:30PM (#22790440)
The problem is that Go makes you write about 5x as much as Rails would, and much of it by copy-pasting.
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