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by ed25519FUUU
2025 days ago
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> Slack uses PHP for most of its server-side application logic, which is an unusual choice these days. Why did we choose to build a new project in this language? Should you? We already know the painfully obvious answer to this question even if it's not listed in the "reasons": because the technology decision makers were comfortable with PHP and they wanted to use it. |
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"Whew... we're all totally psyched with node, and all have experience with it, know how to solve problems with it... but we're going to commit to Django. We don't want to, but we're going to."
Does that exchange ever happen? I've seen the opposite - almost every tech stack I've seen at small and medium sized companies was primarily the result of the few decision makers who had experiences (good or bad) with specific tech which influenced their decision to use X.