Re:What Was Stack Overflow Built With?
by mattmaroon on Sunday September 21, 2008 @11:43PM
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Also, lot easier to find programmers if you're in .net or java. One might argue about the quality, but certainly the supply is much larger.
Re:What Was Stack Overflow Built With?
by pchristensen on Monday September 22, 2008 @08:54AM
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"my initial reaction is always to gasp when I see startups built on Microsoft, but..."
What would you recommend that career Microsoft developers use for their startups?
- ASP.NET can scale, if you do it right. Aside from Microsoft.com/MSN, which don't really count, MySpace uses it (though they upgraded from ColdFusion, which wasn't much better) and Plenty of Fish, the web's largest dating site, uses it too: http://www.plentyoffish.com/about_team.aspx These are probably all larger than the most successful Rails sites.
- ASP.NET MVC isn't a horrible programming model. Forget the abomination that's normal ASP.NET with its funky events. If you've used another MVC framework like Rails or Cake, you'll feel right at home.
- Microsoft's startup program gives startups the early software for super cheap: http://microsoftstartupzone.com/
- It's all about getting v1 out and releasing early and often. If your team grew up on Microsoft, are you really going to make them all learn a new framework? If you do it right and prove out your idea, you can always rewrite later.