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Twitter Reportedly May Abandon Ruby On Rails

Posted by kdawson on from the call-it-a-derailing dept.

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.

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  1. Re:What is Twitter? by nine-times · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think it is one of the most usless things on the face of the earth but it seems popular for some strange reason.

    Most popular things are useless.

  2. Ruby Can't Scale by Foofoobar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And for all those Ruby people in denial to the fact that people have been saying this for years, here is your proof yet again. Of course I will be marked down as being a troll for pointing this out by the RUBY comunity but it is time that they acknowledge the inherent achilles heel of the language.

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