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by teacup50 3957 days ago
There are certainly enough languages to choose from.
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100k 3957 days ago
Sure there are tons of languages, with different strengths and weaknesses. The part that is important is that the early engineers need to be productive in the language.

Choose boring (to you) technology.

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teacup50 3957 days ago
If the technology that's boring to "early engineers" has significantly more weaknesses than the alternatives, then, simply: the wrong people were hired.
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100k 3952 days ago
Stripe is worth $5 billion. I don't think they hired the wrong people.
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teacup50 3951 days ago
Ex post facto justification of complex interdependent decisions and consequences by virtue of market valuation?

That's just dumb survival bias endemic to the YC camp.

It's not something you should actually base business and technical decisions on.

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