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What does the Smalltalk scalability story look like? Could you build something like Twitter or a Farmville backend on Smalltalk with similar scaling strategies
by icey 16y ago
What does the Smalltalk scalability story look like? Could you build something like Twitter or a Farmville backend on Smalltalk with similar scaling strategies used in Python and Ruby?
- avibryant 16y agoWith Smalltalk? Sure. With Seaside? No, that's not what it was designed for. I haven't yet convinced Twitter to do a rewrite in Smalltalk ;). But it would be a step up from Ruby, even if only to get a better garbage collector.