I've always found these types of articles annoying. Pick the language that you know and can hire for cheaply. The end.
If your product or service is a success you can completely rewrite your app and change your entire stack.
If your product or service is a success you can completely rewrite your app and change your entire stack.
That's exactly what they did.
> Go make your thing already.
This article is about a company founded in 2015 that now has a 300-person technical team. They already made their thing and this post is a retrospective looking back at that experience.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Also, my comment that is about making their thing is not about this article specifically, but in general as this type of article is very common, but I removed it to clarify my main point.
That's fair. I've updated my comment to remove that bit.
Unless you're writing things in C or brainfuck, you shouldn't "hire for" language experience.