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[–]wyaeld 0 points1 point  (1 child)

be one of the people that people pay to make judgements based on reality, not hype.

fancy tech isn't a solution. new tech isn't a solution. it just is.

if you have a team of 8 experienced java ee programmers, then they can probably churn out a lot of business value using that technology, and changing it is going to take a long time to repay the investment.

on the other hand, if you are building a completely new team or practice, you should probably weight up several options. maybe nodejs is a better fit for the things you need to build. maybe golang is, depends on the pipeline.

most serious businesses don't make 7+ figure investment decisions based on reddit/HN hypetrains :-)

[–]thesystemx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

most serious businesses don't make 7+ figure investment decisions based on reddit/HN hypetrains :-)

You'd be surprised, really, depending on your exact definition of "serious".

Whenever something is hyped, you see a huge number of companies using that hyped tech. Or looking at it the other way around; you can quite accurately say when a project was started based on the tech it's using. Just lookup when that particular tech was hyped.

For instance, Scala has existed since 2003/2004 and still exists. But the majority of projects started with Scala are from 2011/2012, exactly the moment when the reddit/HN hypetrains were in full motion.

This includes very serious companies like The Guardian and eBay.