I've worked with 2 start-ups. Both had a major
feature release every 4-6 months with minor
releases every month or two.
Great, so you've extrapolated your experience to the whole ecosystem. I'm not saying that at Piehead you don't build websites at a faster pace than others, but even if you do, it's a selection bias, since you're only comparing others that are similar to yourself.Here, I'll give you an example - suppose you want to do natural language parsing, a fairly hot topic these days. Try finding me supporting libs that would do that and that are better documented or mature than NLTK (the Python library), which doesn't work on IronPython btw. didn't want to jam a bulleted list of start-up
names in the middle of the article
That's too bad, as it would have done more for the point you were trying to make than all the other blabering you wrote. almost everybody is a follower in the tech world
Yes, but most valuable projects also add things of value that the original projects didn't.How's the deployment story these days for .NET? Does it have something like Capistrano yet? Why should I use a half-baked clone of Ruby on Rails, when I can go for the real deal and have thousands of cool plugins to choose from? Why should I use NuGet when you can have the really mature Debian repository and rubygems.org/CPAN/PyPi? PHP and Ruby both evolved from Perl
Both innovated in certain ways over Perl, I'm not advocating for revolutions. In both cases you can see clear benefits that those languages / ecosystems provide over Perl.That's not the case with .NET - it's a proprietary technology, having all the cruft of Java, while not having all the benefits of Java - like a strong community or integration with anything under the sun. MVC was in use before half of us were even born
Funny you mention that, because ASP.NET is not MVC. It also makes you jump through hoops to have MVC, mostly because of that braindead postback mechanism.And not all MVC frameworks are created equal. If you can't see the benefits introduced in ASP.NET MVC that were copied from others and that weren't in existence when half of us were even born, then there's no point in debating any further. There are about 20,000 start-ups listed
in the BizSpark directory
Then what was your blog post about? There are pros and cons to both ecosystems
You aren't showing me any pros of .NET, and that was my whole point. Article is vague and filled with hyperbole. If PHP, RoR, Django or some other platform is best for
your project, use it, but don't hide behind hyperbolic
psudeo-facts.
Well, hyperbolic pseudo-facts are countered best with hyperbolic pseudo-facts. Am I right or what? |