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A comment on Smalltalk: An Entrepreneur’s Secret Weapon (2020). Parent comment

Re:Smalltalk: An Entrepreneur’s Secret Weapon (2020) by cutler on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @10:10AM (#35168567)
Facebook is the classic example of this. Hackish procedural PHP that REALLY worked.
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Re:Smalltalk: An Entrepreneur’s Secret Weapon (2020) by DeathArrow on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @03:36PM (#35173595)
Also Twitter. They started with Ruby on Rails and rewrote in Java at a later time.
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Re:Smalltalk: An Entrepreneur’s Secret Weapon (2020) by lisasays on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @05:14PM (#35174806)
Meaning that if we cargo-cult the alleged (and probably overhyped) development rationale of Twitter-like startups, we are implicitly banking on their "It's a rocket ship to the moon or nothing, baby!" growth plans as well.

No viable position for most companies (or even most startups) to take.

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Re:Smalltalk: An Entrepreneur’s Secret Weapon (2020) by cutler on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @05:14PM (#35174817)
They went all-in on Scala first after Ruby. I think the Java is more recent.
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