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Re:We moved from Pony to Rust by zitterbewegung on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @04:35PM (#28778095)
If you are a startup it’s best to focus on the product and not necessarily the implementation

Groupon was prototyped in Wordpress.

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Re:We moved from Pony to Rust by spooneybarger on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @05:30PM (#28778719)
Wallaroo started as a company that was building high-performance data processing infrastructure for real-time trading and adjacent systems. Wordpress wouldn't really cut it.
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Re:We moved from Pony to Rust by steveklabnik on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @05:20PM (#28778605)
For some startups, that makes sense, yes. For other startups, it may not. See pg's classic essay (that I'm not 100% sure I agree with, but, we're on hacker news) for one example of why you may want to use a more niche langauge: http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html

Ruby on Rails was created for Basecamp.

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Re:We moved from Pony to Rust by Zababa on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @06:01PM (#28779046)
And Rails was extracted from Basecamp. I think startups depend so much on the few firsts individuals that it's hard to have a hard rule about what to use.
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