The post seems to be a discussion of C# vs F# without considering any other alternatives. It also mentions being surprised at user groups for Scala and Clojure being larger - I'm surprised that it would be surprising. It seems like the verdict was to go to with F# because it's functional - a good reason, but I'd love to have read why not Scala/Clojure/etc.<p>Odd thing is that at no point does it mention the cost of running ASP.NET servers - are they using F# with Mono? If not, the cost of licensing etc. is a valid concern - though I know MS provides incentives for startups.<p><i>Less competition over top developers can only mean good things for Jet.</i><p>Ehhh... yes and no? If your overall pool of potential developers is much smaller that's definitely a potential issue.
A more accurate title would be "Why Jet didn't choose C#" as they don't seem to pay <i>any</i> attention to the non-Windows stacks available.<p>I'm still no closer to understanding why they would build a startup on a MS stack, a question I've been pondering for the past year and a half.
> Jet is the shopping cart membership that gets you club price savings on just about anything you buy.<p>Pricing should be completely transparent for a competitive market. We need less of this.