Ruby and Python, at least at the time of Twitter and Dropbox foundings, fell more on the side of the hackerish languages.
Objective-C is only a mainstream language now because Apple is the most successful company on Earth. No one besides Apple was seriously using it at the time, and they used it to develop the most popular product in the history of computing. And of course, then bet their development future on an entirely new language, Swift, which of course no one else was using, because Apple invented it.
True, it's crazy Facebook had so much success with PHP. But they are also one of the biggest corporate users of Haskell, I think.
True, on the surface Amazon and Google are on the stodgy side with their "supported" languages. But I believe Google internally is rife with custom, proprietary DSLs to drive a lot of their infrastructure? And they invented Go. Which is in many ways the opposite of Lisp in terms of design. But the larger point PG was making was that the dangerous technology companies evaluate technology decisions on the real potential productivity gains, and not on the number of job postings for that technology.
EDIT: Saw Erlang mentioned elsewhere in this thread, which reminded me of WhatsApp, which led to 50 engineers supporting 900 million users and a $19 billion payday from Facebook! That's the perfect example of the kind of company PG would have been worried about.
Objective-C is only a mainstream language now because Apple is the most successful company on Earth. No one besides Apple was seriously using it at the time, and they used it to develop the most popular product in the history of computing. And of course, then bet their development future on an entirely new language, Swift, which of course no one else was using, because Apple invented it.
True, it's crazy Facebook had so much success with PHP. But they are also one of the biggest corporate users of Haskell, I think.
True, on the surface Amazon and Google are on the stodgy side with their "supported" languages. But I believe Google internally is rife with custom, proprietary DSLs to drive a lot of their infrastructure? And they invented Go. Which is in many ways the opposite of Lisp in terms of design. But the larger point PG was making was that the dangerous technology companies evaluate technology decisions on the real potential productivity gains, and not on the number of job postings for that technology.
EDIT: Saw Erlang mentioned elsewhere in this thread, which reminded me of WhatsApp, which led to 50 engineers supporting 900 million users and a $19 billion payday from Facebook! That's the perfect example of the kind of company PG would have been worried about.