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Twitter Reportedly May Abandon Ruby On Rails
Raster Burn writes "According to TechCrunch, Twitter has plans to abandon Ruby on Rails after two years of scalability issues. Candidates to replace Rails are said to be PHP, Java, and Ruby without the Rails framework." The post links a brief comment (at 139 characters, probably a tweet) from Twitter founder Ev Williams saying it ain't so. The comments following the post embody the controversy over whether or not RoR sucks.
stop replying on crackpot frameworks. a framework system that crashes at all is useless.
They are debating on whether the language can scale. That's why they are thinking of using JAVA or PHP instead. If they thought the language could scale on it's own and they already had fully trained staff of RUBY developers, it wouldn't be a debate now would it? Think about it genius... I'll give you some time since you are a RUBY dev and it takes you twice as long to process.
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They don't know whether RUBY can or can't scale and threw it in just because they have dedicated so many resources and now have to evaluate it without the framework coded in RUBY... which seems odd as other languages which have frameworks coded in their native language seem to scale just fine. Hmmm.... 2+2, genius. Again... I'll give you some time to process. RUBY developers still haven't processed this and it seems they are in an infinite loop of denial.
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So we finally agree... that Ruby is the cheese and therefore it can't scale. Now shutup and eat the cheese.
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