Top Technologies Used By YC Companies
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Top Technologies Used By YC Companies
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#2What baffles me is how this site users themselves seem to dislike PHP a lot, yet it's the most used language of these companies... So why the hate?
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#3I find it hard to believe that 15% of these sites don't use CSS?
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#4What baffles me is how this site users themselves seem to dislike PHP a lot, yet it's the most used language of these companies... So why the hate?
A couple reasons come to mind:
- PHP might be the most practical choice for some of these companies. The founder or lead tech might be most proficient in PHP for real-world applications (even if he adores Python or Ruby).
- PHP might be the language that everyone on the team knows so they choose it to keep everyone equally involved in the production of the site.
- The people commenting on HN aren't necessarily people who start companies (truer now than it ever was).
Edit: Also, it might be the case that some of these servers purposely lie about what language is used on the backend to thwart script kiddies.
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#5Adobe Dreamweaver is a framework now? News to me!
Seriously though: There is really too much noise in some of these diagrams to get much out of them. What surprised me most was nginx overtaking Apache in this sample group.
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#6What baffles me is how this site users themselves seem to dislike PHP a lot, yet it's the most used language of these companies... So why the hate?
Maybe its because the YC founders are not representative of HN's readers. If so, why that's the case could make for interesting discussion.
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#8You missed our site, lanyrd.com (W2011) - out of interest, what was your soure for the list of YC companies?
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#9The pie charts seem like an odd way of counting some of these; for example, one site could use Facebook Like, Google +1 and a Tweet button all at once, but showing them as slices in a pie chart implies to me that the options are mutually exclusive.
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#10What baffles me is how this site users themselves seem to dislike PHP a lot, yet it's the most used language of these companies... So why the hate?
It's not the most used language, actually, though I don't think it's your fault for misreading the chart. Ruby on Rails and "Ruby on Rails Token" were split into two different categories, based on how they figured out the site was using Rails. If you combine those two categories, ruby has higher usage than php.
Not to defend the php hate, of course. Just to point out that it's not actually the most popular language, despite the misleading graph.