Programming language/frame work popularity at Y Combinator(ronyjacob.com)

Programming language/frame work popularity at Y Combinator

http://www.ronyjacob.com/2013/08/29/favorite-programming-language-y-combinator/

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This sort of thing doesn't really mean very much. Language choices for start-ups (well, B2C social SaaS apps really, because that's what "startup" appears to mean these days) tend to favour real-time non-blocking connections that scale easily. That essentially rules out PHP unless you augment it with something else (a small node.js server, Pusher, etc). It doesn't mean, say, that PHP is a "bad language". It just means it'd be an inappropriate choice in that instance.

If the next intake of YC hugely favoured chat apps, we'd probably see Erlang as a really popular language. That doesn't mean you should write your blog software in it.

cval13 anni fa

ROR, Django and J2EE are not programming languages

ronjac13 anni fa

oops!! sorry for the mistake. I corrected it.