Hristo Stanev

Vim is the ultimate tool for text processing once you deal with the steep learning curve.

By far the most mature way to create a decent REST API with django.

We are proficient in python and django and the batteries that come with django are tempting for any startup.

Simplicity of react is what made us choose it over angular. Angular may be the more complete solution but it surely comes at the cost of losing control as it wraps our apps as a framework, when we need a library for our ui.

The sacred history principle and the saner command interface is what made us go with mercurial rather than git. We mostly use centralized workflow and git seemed more focused on flows where thousands of people would contribute.

Buildbot gives us the power to create custom tasks in python. We simply need a tool to notify us of failed tests each time we push code and jenkins seemed as a overkill for that.

Generally better fit to our organization where we keep track of what has happened rather than what should have happened.