My startup is Microsoft-based, here's why

Re:My startup is Microsoft-based, here's why by pmelendez on Monday July 01, 2013 @10:46AM (#5970990)

>"I agree, he could easily be using a JVM-based stack"

Maybe but believe it or not, there are people who HATE Java (that would includes me)

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Re:My startup is Microsoft-based, here's why by obviouslygreen on Monday July 01, 2013 @10:48AM (#5970995)

I'm not a huge fan of Java either, but sometimes it's important to get past that and either try and work with a language that's extremely effective for some deployments, or consider that the JVM supports quite a bit more platforms than just Java.

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Re:My startup is Microsoft-based, here's why by hkarthik on Monday July 01, 2013 @02:56PM (#5972804)

Oh you're not alone. I dislike Java as well, but there's no denying the power of the JVM and the ecosystem around it. If you really dig into it and look at it as a polyglot platform with choices like Groovy, Clojure, JRuby, and Scala, it becomes more palatable.

Regardless this post is not about .NET tooling, more about server efficiency and cost. Two areas where I think the JVM is a little further ahead.

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Re:My startup is Microsoft-based, here's why by city41 on Monday July 01, 2013 @11:12AM (#5971150)

There's always Scala, clojure, groovy, etc.

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