What Was Stack Overflow Built With?
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What Was Stack Overflow Built With?
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Re: What Was Stack Overflow Built With?
#2It's an abomination on so many levels.
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#3ASP.net MVC in C# I believe
Re: What Was Stack Overflow Built With?
#4It's an abomination on so many levels.
If your team is comfortable with Microsoft's stack, why force them to learn Java/python?
Well, they other options are open. So it might make sense. :P
Re: What Was Stack Overflow Built With?
#5With what was Stock Overflow built?
Re: What Was Stack Overflow Built With?
#6With what was Stock Overflow built?
As long as we're being pedantic:
With what was Stack Overflow built?
:~)
Re: What Was Stack Overflow Built With?
#7It's an abomination on so many levels.
If your team is comfortable with Microsoft's stack, why force them to learn Java/python? Well, they other options are open. So it might make sense. :P
Microsoft's stack adds a not-insignificant cost to a 3-4 person bootstrapped startup's budget.
Up to you whether or not you're getting enough of a productivity gain to justify it.
Re: What Was Stack Overflow Built With?
#8It's an abomination on so many levels.
Hey, everyone, let's use this content-free comment to vote on how much we like ASP.NET!
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
If your team is comfortable with Microsoft's stack, why force them to learn Java/python? Well, they other options are open. So it might make sense. :P
Microsoft's stack adds a not-insignificant cost to a 3-4 person bootstrapped startup's budget. Up to you whether or not you're getting enough of a productivity gain to justify it.
Visual studio express editions are free and a windows vps is cheap.
Even if you decide to spring for the full developer licenses you are looking at less than a week of a developers salary for some really good tools.
Re: What Was Stack Overflow Built With?
#10It's probably not the stack I would pick and my initial reaction is always to gasp when I see startups built on Microsoft, but...
- ASP.NET can scale, if you do it right. Aside from Microsoft.com/MSN, which don't really count, MySpace uses it (though they upgraded from ColdFusion, which wasn't much better) and Plenty of Fish, the web's largest dating site, uses it too: http://www.plentyoffish.com/about_team.aspx These are probably all larger than the most successful Rails sites.
- ASP.NET MVC isn't a horrible programming model. Forget the abomination that's normal ASP.NET with its funky events. If you've used another MVC framework like Rails or Cake, you'll feel right at home.
- Microsoft's startup program gives startups the early software for super cheap: http://microsoftstartupzone.com/
- It's all about getting v1 out and releasing early and often. If your team grew up on Microsoft, are you really going to make them all learn a new framework? If you do it right and prove out your idea, you can always rewrite later.