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How to Choose a Programming Language as a Tech Startup

The Startup Magazine

Whether you’re building the next best home automation system, a revolutionary robotics product, or a new kind of software, the programming language you use to make it happen is the foundation of your work. Source: Pexels. Ruby is generally adopted by small companies, owing to its experimental and exploratory community.

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Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

t prompted a good discussion around how CTOs go about choosing the programming language and framework for their startup. Or you might have an investor (or founder) who's convinced that you need to work in a given language (some VCs love Ruby right now). Misconception #1 - "You can build things 10x faster in Ruby."

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

At some point in the past year I watched a video of an Eric Sink presentation and he asked the following question (he said it was asked of him by a college student): Why would someone buy your product when it has an open source competitor? Are there exceptions in the open source world? The UI could kill small animals.

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Ruby On Rails Experts Can Accelerate The Programming Process For First Movers

YoungUpstarts

Ruby on Rails experts work quickly and efficiently to help you carve out a loyal following before the competition strikes, and stay ahead of the game by helping you implement new innovations in web services and applications. What Separates Ruby on Rails from the Pack? How Does the RoR Programming Help You?

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Why is node JS the best framework to launch a Multivendor Ecommerce marketplace Store?

The Startup Magazine

It is a server used to execute the Javascript programming language. Source: Flickr. Node JS is an open source, cross-stage JavaScript run-time application which is utilized for the improvement of both Server side and customer side applications. over Ruby on Rails with the end goal being improving their mobile traffic.

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Accelerating Technology Change and Continuous Learning

Feld Thoughts

No longer is it sufficient to learn a programming language, its idiosyncrasies, its libraries, and its associated development tools. Every time you build your application, you are likely to have some new bugs or incompatibilities related to a change in the language or the libraries (especially open source libraries).

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The Last Coder

This is going to be BIG.

After all, lots of the code required to build web services are now available off the open source shelf--and many of the processes formally asked of the code are being worked into the language itself, like with Ruby on Rails. Usually when people figure out what to make, it's pretty makeable. Architects know this.

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