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Re:What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 ... by aswanson on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @12:43PM (#9335280)
Good point. FB may be an existence proof that the utility/power of the language, at a certain point, is not necessarily the bottleneck in execution.
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Re:What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 ... by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @01:21PM (#9335567)
Can we say this? A startup is more likely to fail because it couldn't iterate fast enough than because it didn't start with a powerful enough platform/stack?

If so, then you should pick the platform/stack that lets you iterate the fastest. Consider both your experience and your problem space when making the choice...

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Re:What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 ... by emodendroket on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @01:32PM (#9335649)
Is that really the lesson to take away? They have lots of projects that are not in PHP and designed a superset of the language with features it didn't have and their own VM for it, among other things, so, while they may have overcome the issues, I'm not sure that it didn't matter.
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