[StrangeWill]

We build a Shopify-leading platform on C# at a startup -- they got so much flak from colleagues about it being built on C# instead of Node or Python.

Absolutely no reason other than "C# icky" -- they ended up with a platform that is crazy fast (and fast scales way easier, it handles a dumb amount of traffic without a lot of crazy design)

Startup culture is toxic AF at times, bad engineering decisions for cargo cult stuff.

[brungarc]

I experience the same. When I try to have a rational dialog about trade offs, there’s nothing there. Or the “only runs in Windows” classic 10+ years outdated stuff I’ve been writing C# on a Mac deploying on Linux for a decade.