Ask HN: choosing your software stack.

5 points by yarek 15y ago ↗ HN

Assuming you and your buddies are serious about a web start up, you are the CTO type and you feel you are proficient in Lisp and a host of other languages. Assume the rest of the gang knows Java. Do you insis on Lisp, or go along with the majority? Would you worry about future hires?

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Rantenki 15y ago ↗

Go java, write your stuff in Clojure, document the jars well :)

Of course, as CTO, you probably won't have a lot of time to write code, so JAVA is still the right choice, and you have to write less (developer) docs.

ryanto 15y ago ↗

pick the language that will get results faster. that sounds like java.

at this point, future hires do not matter. do not worry about them.