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Interesting why they chose Java instead of Scala for this move. The last time they moved off Ruby they moved to Scala, not Java. Anyone at Twitter want to comm
by plinkplonk 16y ago
Interesting why they chose Java instead of Scala for this move. The last time they moved off Ruby they moved to Scala, not Java. Anyone at Twitter want to comment?
- drdaeman 16y agoMaybe they actually meant Java-the-platform, not Java-the-language?
- cgopalan 16y agoFrom the original engineering article on the twitter site, it seems they switched from a database backend (MySQL) to using Lucene and also heavily customized it. Maybe it was just a lesser hassle to interact with Lucene using Java. Would love to hear reasons directly from them.