Why did you assume web development? Sure, many people here build web sites, but don't forget that such startups still represent a relatively small fraction of total amount of software written.
I am involved in two startups and both use C++.
1. Video codecs (encoding/transocing) and IP video streaming. This is for my "day job" startup where we do IP video security.
2. Pikluk Browser (downloadable from pikluk.com) is written in C++ because that project requires a fairly low-level Win32 hacking.
And even our Rails web application uses external C-libraries for image manipulation.
It's possible that they're building stuff with either a desktop component (RescueTime, DropBox, PikLuk) or a heavy algorithmic component on the back-end (I don't know of any, but then, I wouldn't...) Very few successful startups are only web; most combine a web aspect with some sort of domain-specific processing or data collection, which can be in any language.
There's code written in C and Ocaml in my current startup, but I didn't write it, so I didn't tick it off in the poll. But I could easily see us moving into an area where we'd want to do some back-end processing in a faster language than Python.
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Wow. I'm maintaining a math-heavy desktop app in C++ and it's killing me with its ponderousness. Who the eff is using C++ for web development?
Why did you assume web development? Sure, many people here build web sites, but don't forget that such startups still represent a relatively small fraction of total amount of software written.
I am involved in two startups and both use C++.
1. Video codecs (encoding/transocing) and IP video streaming. This is for my "day job" startup where we do IP video security.
2. Pikluk Browser (downloadable from pikluk.com) is written in C++ because that project requires a fairly low-level Win32 hacking.
And even our Rails web application uses external C-libraries for image manipulation.
"Please only vote if you are actually using a particular tech for web development"
"Who the eff is using C++ for web development?"
Google.
I am very curious about the same thing. All I can guess is there are still hackers developing CGI based web services for their startups. But why...
It's possible that they're building stuff with either a desktop component (RescueTime, DropBox, PikLuk) or a heavy algorithmic component on the back-end (I don't know of any, but then, I wouldn't...) Very few successful startups are only web; most combine a web aspect with some sort of domain-specific processing or data collection, which can be in any language.
There's code written in C and Ocaml in my current startup, but I didn't write it, so I didn't tick it off in the poll. But I could easily see us moving into an area where we'd want to do some back-end processing in a faster language than Python.