Re:YC startups that are hiring
by rattray on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @10:56PM
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> Choice of language only affects your culture if you believe choice of language affects your culture and let it happen.
I would disagree with that. I just came from a startup on .NET. The develop/build/test/deploy cycles were really slow (mostly due to tooling/infra, not the language), which meant devs didn't ship frequently and didn't test their code much. That affected the culture quite a bit: no rapid experimentation means no hacker mentality.
It may be that you can develop rapidly with C# or Java (I just wouldn't know, I haven't ever used either in a highly-productive environment) but if they hold you back from shipping quickly, they hold you back from the hacker/startup mentality.
I would disagree with that. I just came from a startup on .NET. The develop/build/test/deploy cycles were really slow (mostly due to tooling/infra, not the language), which meant devs didn't ship frequently and didn't test their code much. That affected the culture quite a bit: no rapid experimentation means no hacker mentality.
It may be that you can develop rapidly with C# or Java (I just wouldn't know, I haven't ever used either in a highly-productive environment) but if they hold you back from shipping quickly, they hold you back from the hacker/startup mentality.