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MidnightRaver | 5 years ago

The table very clearly shows the correlation.

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jacobwilliamroy|5 years ago

Nope. Sample size too small to draw correlation.

wwn_se|5 years ago

yep absolutely and there is also the fact that its a list of VC backed (successful)startups we would need to see the failed ones at least. I would say sound development practices (code review, platform design, testing etc) is orders of magnitude more important.

Facebook started out using PHP and it was so bad they had to almost rewrite the language from scratch. PHP is now pretty decent and Facebook is doing pretty OK.