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.

Comments

Re:I'm surprised they didn't do it sooner

[moderatorrater]

You're obviously underestimating the amount of effort it takes to store usernames, passwords, and phone numbers in a database, then associate them with messages no more than 120 characters in length.

Re:What is Twitter?

[Anonymous Coward]

See Hilton, Paris

Re:I'm surprised they didn't do it sooner

[neoform]

That sounds like advanced stuff to me.

On an unrelated note, is anyone here good with hello world programs? Mine keeps crashing.

Re:I'm surprised they didn't do it sooner

[moderatorrater]

I'm fairly certain your problem is trying to talk to the whole world at once. Your computer program's seeing that, and it's trying to yell too loud. Try doing "Hello user" and see if that helps.

Re:What is Twitter?

[Poltras]

and digg, reddit. Not slashdot though.