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Is there a list of the programming languages and environments YC acceptees have used on their applications?

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Here are some discussions: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=10748 http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=10875 http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=12619

thanks

A lot of these Ask YC style questions get repeated because its hard to find old postings. Perhaps we should start adding these to a FAQ section on http://wiki.ycombinator.com/

In WFP2007 the languages/platforms used, roughly in order of popularity) were:

Ruby on Rails

PHP

Java

Perl

That's not all of the technologies used, but I think that's a pretty good representation of the mix in order of popularity (there might be a Python group in there, too, but I can't think of who). One group is writing their own language and framework (Tsumobi, implemented in J2ME), while others are working predominantly in JavaScript (Zenter) or ActionScript (Heysan) for large parts of their product and the backend language is entirely unimportant (I'm betting Zenter probably only has a couple thousand lines of server-side code, versus tens of thousands of lines of JavaScript). Actually, nearly everyone is doing some of their work in JavaScript, and it's the one language that I know I can ask any of the developers in the program questions about.

Lately the median co we fund uses RoR.

At the risk of looking stupid, do you mean "mode" rather than "median"? I thought median was the middle element of an ordered sample, and mode the most common. Also, any Python in there?

Cheers, Ralph.

Ok, yes, mode.

Python is probably second most common. There are also some using Java, because they have to for phones.

There are at least two good Scheme implementations on the Java platform: the Kawa compiler and the SISC interpreter. I have substantial experience with the former and hear only good things about the latter.

interesting, for people that picked up RoR as a tool for 'beating the average' (http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html) - RoR has become framework of choice for average startups..

Yeah maybe, but compared to the gigantic number of C# and Java developers it's not even close. The average programmer is a much different beast than those working at our kind of startups.

That said, real startup programmers hack in Python.

Theres always django for pythoners. Great framework if you can get it installed.

Django is goofy to install sometimes. Strange. Then again TurboGears with its n+ components can be tricky.

I might actually give Rails a try on my next short consulting gig. All these YCers can't all be wrong.

I was talking with one of the co-creators of Django the other day and even he cant get it to install!

Is RoR favored due to its ability to allow for speed of development? As this must be a key factor for a company expected to produce a workable application in a 3 month time period.

Nah, it's just because the lisp guys smell too bad to catch their flight to the interview.

Did anyone use Groovy on Grails?

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