Not just karma, too many lazy engineers choose their stack almost solely on a qu...

romanovcode · on Feb 20, 2015

Not only here but in general "coolness" is one of the main factors for choosing tech in startups.

2008 - So did you rewrite your PHP apps in Ruby?

2012 - So did you rewrite your Ruby apps in Node?

2015 - So did you rewrite your Node apps in Go?

tsax · on Feb 20, 2015

I'd dispute the 2015 one. There have been lots of Go related articles on HN, but Go usually gets a mixed reception.

remarkEon · on Feb 20, 2015

I think it would actually be pretty interesting to do some kind of visualization over time with popularity of languages and mentions on forums like this.