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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. View of a tech dinosaur by mlwmohawk · · Score: -1, Troll

    GET OFF MY LAWN!!!

    Seriously, ruby is ugly. Really ugly. So amazingly stupidly ugly. It's so ugly, that "ugly" is complaining about being called ruby.

    I know it has fans and people who really love it, what can I say? good luck with that.

    Yes, I know this is a troll. I've gotten a few +5 "interesting" and thought I'd blow a few karma points and "rail" on ruby.

    1. Re:View of a tech dinosaur by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      You're right. Ruby is ugly if you try to write Ruby like you'd write PHP, or Python, or whatever language you think is beautiful.

      Oh, dear god, someone is actually postulating that python is a beautiful language.

      We had a consultant who wrote a whole bunch of shit in python -- ugliest fucking language I've ever seen.

      Making white space syntactically significant is something only a moron would do.
  2. Re:Hype vs. reality... again. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Way to go dipshit, you just made a fool out of yourself to everyone who bothered to read article and immediate denials from Twitter.

    What shitty company has someone as dumb as you doing tech 'analysis'?

  3. Serves them right by geekoid · · Score: -1, Troll

    for using technology that isn't mature.

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  4. Sense, you're not making any... by TWX · · Score: -1, Troll

    Twitter is a major site, even if you yourself have never heard of it, with many tens of thousands of users. As such it is felt by many to by *the* flagship RoR application. Unfortunately it has suffered from numerous outages, some of these lasting days at a time.


    This still explains NOTHING to me. I hear the words coming out of your mouth, and they sound like English, but the order that they're in doesn't make any friggin' sense...

    Now I know how my parents felt when I tried to tell them to buy me a 3dFX Voodoo Rush video card for the AGP bus, but it had to be the Hercules-branded one with 8MB RAM on it...
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  5. Re:Hype vs. reality... again. by Actually,+I+do+RTFA · · Score: -1, Troll

    Since going 1.0, I've run into one non-critical bug in the framework.

    Sure, ignore all the critical bugs, as they make your development environment seem like a worse choice. People like you make me sick.

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