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Copy to another hard drive. Guess twice. Wipe hard drive. Rinse, wash, repeat. Infinite guesses.

As an individual, I almost always would choose a language I already know comfortably, and every other factor would come after that - unless I were setting out to learn something new.

Other factors:

- is there tooling that will help me be productive with this language?

- is there a broad enough community of users such that finding helpful resources will be straightforward?

- how likely is it that the language I choose will be well-supported by its owners (or community) in 5-10 years?

- is the language expressive? can it be made to be efficient?

- does it appeal to me aesthetically?

- does it have good cross-platform support? (Windows, macOS, Linux)

- is it supported by build systems and/or CI products?

Through the filter of "stuff I know", my choice for most things at this point is F# on .NET Core/.NET 5. (and/or Fable).

For learning something new, I'd probably choose elixir with elm, or maybe Rust, depending on the application.

> I am much more interested in talking about steps we can take to mitigate and prevent misinformation while preserving free speech.

How do you even categorize misinformation when western societies have decided that there is no such thing as truth?

Our crisis is far, far, deeper than what information can be published online. We are in the midst of an epistemological cataclysm.

ASP.NET is pretty bare bones, all by itself. It's pretty much just a simple pipeline of request handlers with DI support (which is also optional). MVC, routing, Razor - all unnecessary if you don't want to use them.

I agree that the ASP.NET documentation is lacking in F# code samples (although the example you picked is a bad one as Razor doesn't support F#, and so naturally wouldn't have F# code samples). You might find that Giraffe is a more comfortable framework, as it's essentially an F#-ified shim on top of ASP.NET.

+1 for choosing .NET Core. I'm right there with you. Extra points for F#.

Not at all. Keep in mind that YC startups are birthed from a very narrow slice of the tech world. .NET Core is very, very good tech and unless you need something super niche, there's no reason to doubt your choice. Press on.

This would be more interesting if YC didn't have a strong inherent bias toward these particular languages. In other words: these are the results because this is what YC picks and filters for, not because of any inherent meaningfulness about choosing these languages, or qualities of the languages.

This is incorrect. Firstly, it's 10 per second. Secondly, it shouldn't be all that hard to imagine "side chains" or even "local-party networks" being built to handle transactions and use the underlying blockchain as a settlement mechanism. This is, as I understand it, how the lightning network works/will work, and I see no reason to think it wouldn't improve Bitcoin's adoption, which is already orders of magnitude better than other cryptos.

This is very old news. We've been doing this in the US for at least 15 years.

I've seen some employers keep an "unlimited vacation" policy with strongly-suggested (i.e., mandatory?) minimums like 3 weeks a year. Having minimums would probably help with this trap, although I can't really speak from experience on the matter.

I did talk to someone on the phone, and she indicated that this position is onsite. :-(

Why the downvote? The listing doesn't specify. Not sure how else one would clarify without asking.

I lived there for an internship once, and I totally agree. But: moving just ain't happenin' for me :-) Happy hunting!