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.

There's a whole monty python sketch for this shit

[Anonymous Coward]

...and maybe it won't? Maybe the moon is made of cheese, but maybe it isn't! who's to say?! This isn't news, it's a conversation starter for people who enjoy arguing.

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?

[gatzke]

In my day, we had talk, finger, vi, and elm and we never complained! Green vt100 terminals were all anyone really needed! Get off of my lawn!

Seriously, talk had advantages over IM. You actually could see what the other person typed as they typed it, including backspaces...

And finger worked great. I knew a nerd that had his .plan updated automatically to show where he physically was logged in. As if anyone cared?

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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.

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

[ubernostrum]

Grandparent asked "How complex can Twitter be on the inside?" Parent asserted that there's nothing more to it than a few database tables. Parent is ignorant, a jackass, or possibly an ignorant jackass.

Re:What is Twitter?

[STrinity]

Twitter is a site popular with a small coterie of techies who talk about it incessantly, but which no normal person would ever use.

Fixed that for you.

Re:There's a whole monty python sketch for this sh

[Hognoxious]

it's a conversation starter for people who enjoy arguing.

No it isn't.

Re:What is Twitter?

[kadnan]

Most popular things are useless.

Like Windows?

Re:Follow the script

[mysqlrocks]

I have been writing web apps since 1993 and have used C/C++, java, perl, python, ruby, and even lisp and honestly I have yet to encounter a script language that can handle high load environments.

Have you tried PHP? I hear it runs several [yahoo.com] high [wikipedia.org] load [facebook.com] websites [digg.com] ;-)