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by ipnon 2181 days ago
You're right.

Startups are most likely to fail for either never existing or crashing after take off. Founders mistake the first for an engineering problem and the second for a culture problem. Engineers are smart, if they can write a server in Python they can write a server in Go. Don't waste millions on maintaining an awkward stack for anything but first principles engineering decisions.