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I'm not sure many companies have the luxury of doing what FB did. I can't imagine a world where choosing to rewrite your app, or choosing to rewrite the entire
by nemothekid 6y ago
I'm not sure many companies have the luxury of doing what FB did. I can't imagine a world where choosing to rewrite your app, or choosing to rewrite the entire language, where rewriting the entire language would be the cheaper solution.
Twitter did this with their Scala craze, but Twitter struggled to scale it's Ruby app. Twitter didn't have nearly as deep pockets to write a performant alternative Ruby VM.
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- jfoutz 6y agoJoel Spolsky did it, city something?
- chucksmash 6y agoI believe the product was called "CityDesk" and the in-house language that compiled to several different target languages was called Wasabi. Edit: I was wrong, Fog Creek did have a "CityDesk" product at one point, but Wasabi was for on-prem FogBugz[1]. [1]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/09/01/wasabi/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/09/01/wasabi/