[w1nk]

> There’s this interesting dissonance where all the second year CS students and their professors agree it’s the wrong tool for the job yet the most successful products in the world did it anyway.

> I guess you could interpret that to mean all these people building these products made a bad choice that succeeded despite using Python but I’d interpret it as another instance of Worse is Better. Just like Linus was told monolithic kernels were the wrong tool for the job but we’re all running Linux anyway.

This isn't the correct perspective or take away. The 'tool' for the job when you're talking about building/scaling a website changes over time as the business requirements shift. When you're trying to find market fit, iterating quickly using 'RAD' style tools is what you need to be doing. Once you've found that fit and you need to scale, those tools will need to be replaced by things that are capable of scaling accordingly.

Evaluating this binary right choice / wrong choice only makes sense when qualified with a point in time and or scale.