I find your lack of C on the back end...disturbing.
If you were building a startup today, what would you use?
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Re: If you were building a startup today, what would you use?
#22Man, Grails / Groovy never get any love from these poll authors! C'mon, Grails rocks people... :-) Seriously, I switched all of our development from Java/Tapestry/etc. to Groovy/Grails a few years ago, and really couldn't be happier with the decision. Grails isn't flawless, but it mostly "just works" and makes my life SO much easier than before. No, it isn't the "flavor of the day" like node.js or what-have-you, but…
I chose Scala/Play framework for the same reasons. Java might be awful, but the JVM is a beast.
>Though my tip though for the long term replacement of javac is Scala. I'm very impressed with it! I can honestly say if someone had shown me the Programming in Scala book by by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon & Bill Venners back in 2003 I'd probably have never created Groovy. -James Strachan
Re: If you were building a startup today, what would you use?
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is that? My motivation for picking Android is the larger market share. Even if you have engineering preferences, to me what really matters is getting it out in front of a wider audience.
What markets are you trying to get more in front of? US? Europe? China? What device levels are you trying to get in front of? Android seems like a "no brainer" until you start looking at the details... For example, if you cut out all "cheap shit 2.2 android devices" and focus on new(ish) Android 4.0> things get REALLY murky... In the US iOS still holds a lead over Android in those markets; in Europe Android is ahead,…
I should clarify my asking the question isn't "Why would anyone do that?!?!" it is more "What is the advantage? Is there something I missed?"
Re: If you were building a startup today, what would you use?
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
tabulated results https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApqmTkgH6Ua_dEZ...
Watching these answers stream in on the spreadsheet really makes me think of what a realtime reddit or stack exchange could look like. Adding live interaction from observers (likes, comment streams, etc).
maybe you've heard of quora ;-)
Re: If you were building a startup today, what would you use?
#25I for one didn't know about Digital Ocean before I put this survey out, and now I do, and am really grateful as a result.
Re: If you were building a startup today, what would you use?
#26- If you don't know a web programming language, find the easiest one to learn (quicker to launch)
- If you do know programming languages, use the one you're best at (quicker to launch)
I'll refer to my previous argument for all of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6169120
Re: If you were building a startup today, what would you use?
#27Man, Grails / Groovy never get any love from these poll authors! C'mon, Grails rocks people... :-) Seriously, I switched all of our development from Java/Tapestry/etc. to Groovy/Grails a few years ago, and really couldn't be happier with the decision. Grails isn't flawless, but it mostly "just works" and makes my life SO much easier than before. No, it isn't the "flavor of the day" like node.js or what-have-you, but…
+10000 - we've switched to Grails ~3 years ago, probably our best tech decision EVER.
Re: If you were building a startup today, what would you use?
#28So I guess the (currently third place) "Other" is mostly PHP? I know it's not cool but it still seems strange to leave that popular and frequently used platform out of the poll.
Anyone who would start a new project from scratch in PHP hasn't been paying attention.
If PHP was the language you knew best and your goal was to launch a product - then PHP would be a reasonable choice.
If your goal was to be cool, then obviously PHP would be a terrible choice.
Re: If you were building a startup today, what would you use?
#29I for one didn't know about Digital Ocean before I put this survey out, and now I do, and am really grateful as a result.
Digital Ocean is great.... I've been using them for a bunch of stuff. Make for great dab/staging servers and low cost platforms.
Re: If you were building a startup today, what would you use?
#30Man, Grails / Groovy never get any love from these poll authors! C'mon, Grails rocks people... :-) Seriously, I switched all of our development from Java/Tapestry/etc. to Groovy/Grails a few years ago, and really couldn't be happier with the decision. Grails isn't flawless, but it mostly "just works" and makes my life SO much easier than before. No, it isn't the "flavor of the day" like node.js or what-have-you, but…
I ditched Grails for Play in 2011, definitely prefer Scala over Groovy any day of the week.