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kloop | 8 months ago

That makes perfect sense for people that need to scale. But doesn't explain why newer start ups aren't using it.

Doing things that don't scale is a proven strategy at the beginning, pg even has a post about it

https://www.paulgraham.com/ds.html

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dismalaf|8 months ago

> But doesn't explain why newer start ups aren't using it.

Plenty of newer startups use Rails. At least several pretty much every YC batch. You just need to pay attention.

wiseowise|8 months ago

No static typing would be a good dealbreaker for us.