I've seen a bunch of tweets today about "company X is using (your favorite esoteric language) in production but it's such a competitive advantage that it's a secret!"
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During their super successful hypergrowth days, half of them were known for having terrible tech, processes, etc., which didn't matter in the face of amazing product-market fit. This is different for companies that compete on technical merit (GPU, HFT, etc.), but those are rare.
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Cloud is arguably one of the most technical big $$ markets around. My team at AWS's most successful competitor didn't use version control until I spent 3 months advocating for it. Is using Erlang a bigger competitive advantage than using version control? I doubt it.
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Back in the day (say up to 2003), companies did regard Python as a competitive advantage, and rightly. It gave startups a huge advantage.
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