It is kind of difficult to add JS into this poll in my opinion. I think everyone will have to check js and something else, unless you are talking about using js for the backend as well as front-end. I can't imagine a startup/app that doesn't use js (at least one that is web based)
Poll: What programming language do you use for your app/startup?
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Re: Poll: What programming language do you use for your app/startup?
#62I think that the languages used by people who voted for "Other" are the most interesting to see in this context. Could you please post what language you're using in your project if you use a language that is not listed? I use Erlang.
Scala
Another vote for Scala (plus Ruby, R and Javascript).
Re: Poll: What programming language do you use for your app/startup?
#63You didn't list Erlang, Lua, Scheme, Common Lisp, OCaml, Prolog, or Haskell. (Also, loads of other languages, but I actually know people who use each of those.) Also, adding options to a poll that's already in progress is going to skew the accuracy by quite a bit, but self-selecting polls aren't that scientifically rigorous anyway.
You are right - that's why I stopped adding any more languages after the first 30 mins since this could skew the newer languages lower.
Re: Poll: What programming language do you use for your app/startup?
#64Other = Scala/Lift. Too different from Java to lump it into that general category.
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#65I wish Javascript was split out into server-side (Node, etc.) vs client-side.
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#66I marked off C, C++, python, and other (shell scripts) for rethinkdb though I'm not there right now. The code was in C++ but most of it would compile as C, and we wrote lots of benchmarks in some combination of python and shell scripts.
If I were to do my own startup, it'd probably be in clojure.
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#67Haskell
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#68I think as startups grow, they tend to end up with something of a frankenstein-ish mix of languages as they write bits that are well suited to each language. For us I ended up checking C++, Java, Javascript, Perl and Ruby, though we have little bits also in Python, Scala and PHP as well. As a sidenote, we track which programming languages our webservices customers are using and I made a graph of such here: http://blo…
I find it a little surprising that you use both perl and ruby. Is it an issue of "one guy likes perl, another likes ruby", or are there things you find easier in one than the other, in both directions?
Or is ruby just there for your API and your internal stuff is perl?
Re: Poll: What programming language do you use for your app/startup?
#69I think that the languages used by people who voted for "Other" are the most interesting to see in this context. Could you please post what language you're using in your project if you use a language that is not listed? I use Erlang.
My "other" was for clojure and sh.
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#70You're alienating a lot of designers by excluding HTML from the list. ducks