All true but there is still quite a bit of inefficiency involved if you need a team that is both proficient in deploying & running Linux infrastructure tools as well as Windows servers.
And given that this discussion is taking place in the comments section of a link to a custom-made monitoring dashboard that quite possibly wouldn't be needed* if SO was a Linux-only shop doesn't exactly devalue my previous statement.
*I have no idea whether this could be replaced with Nagios or Munin
Many of us have .NET experience, really like C# but have sensible reasons for not recommending it. A Microsoft only stack is nowhere near as flexible as Linux and if you were to reach Stack Overflow's levels of traffic you'll not be able to avoid the need to run a part of your infrastructure on Linux. I seriously doubt Stack Overflow is running Redis, ElasticSearch & HAProxy* on Windows. Unless you already have a team proficient in .NET, there are few good reasons to use it instead of a JVM language.
This is one of the reasons I use Go in favour of pretty much anything running on the JVM stack.
I don't have to change my workflow at all between working in Python, C, Go and JS. I can use vim for all of the above and none of them force me to have years of experience with an IDE in order to be productive.
It's not popular on HN for a reason. Even if you run everything on Mono, for practical reasons you are tied to Windows as a development platform and that's a major issue for just about anyone who does their development on other platforms.
Not really a fair feature comparison. If db migration wasn't in Rails, ActiveRecord wouldn't work the way it does. You can't say the same about Django's ORM.
I'd be more inclined to recommend VMWare for our in-office needs if I can conveniently move VMs off to an OpenStack supporting public cloud. VMWare's offerings are good enough to compete with any private cloud out there but not having any interoperability with what seems like the future of the open cloud could hurt them.
If you need to learn a framework then PHP loses simplicity, one of the few things its got going for itself. And if your needs validate the use of a framework, you'd probably be better off with RoR or Django.
I had no idea either. I started programming in college but it wasn't until we were taught assembly that I realized that what I had been doing as a kid with softice had been assembly all along.
Or that it hasn't fixed the warts it has. I use Ruby rarely enough to really, really miss explicit imports. I guess it's not a problem if you use it all the time and magically know what's in the global namespace at any given time but it's a pain in the ass when you have to touch a legacy rails app twice a year.
And given that this discussion is taking place in the comments section of a link to a custom-made monitoring dashboard that quite possibly wouldn't be needed* if SO was a Linux-only shop doesn't exactly devalue my previous statement.
*I have no idea whether this could be replaced with Nagios or Munin