I totally agree. That's why the team has focused on PHP and PHP frameworks mostly for now. Getting the scripts as right as possible over the months.
And we've been using respected members of the other language communities to build up the stacks.
I know for someone like me I want one hosting account for everything if I can. I hate multiple accounts and it's nice to just see everything in one place.
Totally get the strategy, though I was writing PHP apps 10 years ago... I would be hard pressed to go back, especially after having touched YII last year. PHP is legacy today, right or wrong.
My point is twofold: First, it's very important to nail a trending language and framework. Right now that is a short list of Go, pure-JavaScript (firebase + angular), node, and maybe django. You are going after mindshare of hackers. You have to pick the trendy environments. The whole reason people left PHP to rails was the YouTube video where the guy typed "rails server" and magically stuff just worked. You need to do the same for the short list above.
Second, you have to show the benefit of your product. Seeing is believing. Nothing else will substitute.
While this is the anonymous Internet and you know nothing about me, at least do some gut checks with the current uni kids. Best of luck!
It is somewhat legacy, and I personally don't use a ton of it. But the designer world loves it - new frameworks are constantly still coming out on PHP.
I stopped using PHP so much for that very video. It's very like DHH's video, that's what we're aiming to do.
And we've been using respected members of the other language communities to build up the stacks.
I know for someone like me I want one hosting account for everything if I can. I hate multiple accounts and it's nice to just see everything in one place.