YC Software Startups: Value and Initial Programming Language Used
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Re: YC Software Startups: Value and Initial Programming Language Used
#2The 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?
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#4Fascinating 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 want a statically typed back end and 5 years ago I'd probably have hesitated before using TypeScript and node together. Now I do it regularly.
Would be super interesting to see the same chart in 5 years with companies starting now.
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#5Seems like age is a factor: ruby had its day and companies of that vintage have been around long enough for some of them to be worth bucks. Python is more perennial (over the lifetime of YC itself).
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#6This is a really good time to remember correlation does not equal causation. :)
Re: YC Software Startups: Value and Initial Programming Language Used
#7The 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?
The table very clearly shows the correlation.
Re: YC Software Startups: Value and Initial Programming Language Used
#8The 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 Rust?
Still, an interesting analysis.
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#9Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200826060913/https://charliere...
Looks like HN brought it down.
Re: YC Software Startups: Value and Initial Programming Language Used
#10Reddit 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?