Building a StartUp and moving from PHP to Ruby at the same time? [closed]

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I am about to build the backend for my startup, which will be mainly offering a REST service, but HTML content will become available later. I am an experienced PHP developer and was thinking about building it in PHP first, but many people try to convince me to switch to Ruby. I would love to, bu开发者_Go百科t I have the following concerns:

• I want to create a prototype quickly, learning a new language costs me a lot of time.
• Right now I do not have a second developer who has Ruby expertise, so if I am stuck searching for a bug somewhere, it is worse than being stuck in PHP, where I know a bunch of people to get assistance from.

Some of the arguments people are making in favor of Ruby are:

• It is easy to find good developers for Ruby, because the language itself is a filter.
• Using a framework like Sinatra would speed up my development time drastically
• Ruby is fun

What would you do?

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The questions are :

• do you prefer fun, or efficiency ?
• do you have time to wait before being efficient ?
• why not just recruit a good php developer ?
  • Even if there are bad developers on the market, there are also good developers
  • And I should add it's not that hard to see if a developer is good or not.
• you say language is a filter ; don't you think it'll be enough of a filter to just make things hard when it comes to finding a ruby developer ?

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If you're betting your money on this startup, take the road that you know. Getting to market quickly and having a support structure may be a lot more important than switching to a fun language.