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There are enormous number of factors that play a role in the success of startups and most of them are more important than the programming language they use. By the way I have never understood how "powerful" can be the property of a programming language? If you have people with good experience in X language then no matter how "powerful" language Y is, it cannot compete with that experience.

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Consider Assembly as a counter-example.

It's not. (All right, it usually is, but...)

What if my definition of "power" is "the ability to write interrupt service routines and OS trap handlers"? That is, there are definitions of "power" where assembly is in fact the most powerful language out there. It all depends on what problem you're trying to solve.

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