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Did using Node.JS or Typescript correlate with business failure or is it just more recent?
I'm also particularly interested if trying to use Kubernetes correlates with failure. Kubernetes, for all its good, is a rats nest of complexity.
The 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…
If you're talking about survivorship bias, I can well believe it. Ruby is still popular with startups, and there's no falloff in Rails usage, if the gem download graph is anything to go by.
I 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?
I know a little about Coinbase. The CEO did the initial MVC with ruby on rails. He was somewhat technical so it was a natural choice. Then they moved forward with ruby for the whole platform, maybe as that's what he understood and what was the alternative back in the day. However for any of these businesses the language of choice if starting today for me would be rust. I really feel you get a much more maintainable c…
Rust is a great language, but how do you scale a Rust team? It’s a hard language to learn without a ton of developers out there. I suppose you could hire C/C++ devs, but if you’re just making a fairly standard SAAS Web app, it might be hard to pull those people over. Rust feels like overkill for your typical Web service to me.
There are plenty of people who have spent time learning rust but haven't had a chance to use it on a production project. I would start looking there.
So the use of C# dooms my startup? I feel really out of touch having never used python or ruby.
So it's more of background/instincts things than language. C# technically has nothing which makes it a bad choice for startups.
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Rust is a great language, but how do you scale a Rust team? It’s a hard language to learn without a ton of developers out there. I suppose you could hire C/C++ devs, but if you’re just making a fairly standard SAAS Web app, it might be hard to pull those people over. Rust feels like overkill for your typical Web service to me.
There's a tradeoff, a high inital cognitive load for people learning the language vs the long term pay off of less bugs in production. There are plenty of people who have spent time learning rust but haven't had a chance to use it on a production project. I would start looking there.
It has not been proved large, long-lived Rust projects have fewer bugs than large, long-lived Python/Ruby projects.
Fascinating 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…
The 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…
> Note: Ruby and ruby on rails was a popular choice for YC startups around 2010 - 2012. Anecdotally, ~40% of YC startups used ruby during its peak popularity.
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If you're talking about survivorship bias, I can well believe it. Ruby is still popular with startups, and there's no falloff in Rails usage, if the gem download graph is anything to go by.
I'm not sure how they came with that projection at the end, despite the fall shown...