Paul Graham effectively invented startups as we know them. Back in about 2005 already, he just gave a piece of advice: everyone who tried to build using Microsoft technologies, failed. Maybe enough people listened?
HN used to as well, every 2 or 3 years since it was started you'd have half the comments in a language discussion swearing blind that everyone was just about to switch to Lisp, then it was Erlang, then Haskell, then Scala.