The fact that JS barely makes the list indicates to me that YC companies tend to have entirely separate frontend and backend codebases. That either indicates separate teams of frontend and backend developers, which I think is unlikely in a young company, or that there's an expectation that developers in early YC companies are expected to use (at least) two languages. Something to think about if you're starting out as a dev and thinking of looking for a role in a YC startup.
YC Software Startups: Value and Initial Programming Language Used
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Re: YC Software Startups: Value and Initial Programming Language Used
#22The fact that JS barely makes the list indicates to me that YC companies tend to have entirely separate frontend and backend codebases. That either indicates separate teams of frontend and backend developers, which I think is unlikely in a young company, or that there's an expectation that developers in early YC companies are expected to use (at least) two languages. Something to think about if you're starting out as…
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Re: YC Software Startups: Value and Initial Programming Language Used
#23The title seems to insinuate there’s a correlation between a startup’s value and dev language. While I think our “inner geek“ all likes to think so - is that really the case?
Absolutely not. You will find winners and losers for every language.
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#24Fascinating to see how heavily Ruby and Python feature. The things that surprised me by their absence and near absence were languages I love: JS and C# That said, this is taking now well established startups that will have begun their lives 5+ years ago in general. If I was picking a back end stack then I'd probably hesitate before picking the .NET Framework. But these days I'd easily pick .NET Core. Likewise, I'd wa…
Node will probably start showing up more, though I'd say its biggest weakness is that there's no full framework (that takes care of everything) that's truly dominant. Working in node, feels like working in Java, especially if you're using Typescript. Unlike Ruby and Python, Javascript / TS suffers from the paradox of choice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice
Re: YC Software Startups: Value and Initial Programming Language Used
#25Reddit was Lisp for a rather short time before being rewritten in Python. Isn't the story that HN was written in Arc as a response to Reddit's Python rewrite?
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#26I bet there's at least one company on this list who says they use a flash programming language because they're too embarrassed to tell the world they're running autohotkey scripts over an excel spreadsheet.
no way, is that actually possible?
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#27The page doesn’t list the year the startups were founded. I wonder if you’d see a good correlation to the founding year. More startups on the list use Ruby than any other language, and it accounts for over fifty percent of the valuation. It was very popular with startups ten, twelve years ago, but may since have slipped? On the other hand among younger companions es one might expect to see more Go, Node and maybe Rus…
Yeah, I'm guessing that more recent startups will have much less Ruby usage.
Re: YC Software Startups: Value and Initial Programming Language Used
#28Fascinating to see how heavily Ruby and Python feature. The things that surprised me by their absence and near absence were languages I love: JS and C# That said, this is taking now well established startups that will have begun their lives 5+ years ago in general. If I was picking a back end stack then I'd probably hesitate before picking the .NET Framework. But these days I'd easily pick .NET Core. Likewise, I'd wa…
I use python because its just so much easier to develop. I think for startups iteration speed is magnitudes more important than running efficiency of code
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#29I bet there's at least one company on this list who says they use a flash programming language because they're too embarrassed to tell the world they're running autohotkey scripts over an excel spreadsheet.
no way, is that actually possible?
Excel is extremely well optimized and can easily handle GB size CSVs
Re: YC Software Startups: Value and Initial Programming Language Used
#30The page doesn’t list the year the startups were founded. I wonder if you’d see a good correlation to the founding year. More startups on the list use Ruby than any other language, and it accounts for over fifty percent of the valuation. It was very popular with startups ten, twelve years ago, but may since have slipped? On the other hand among younger companions es one might expect to see more Go, Node and maybe Rus…
I'm curious about this too. I'm working on collecting that data for these companies. Hopefully that sheds more insight into this.