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Because "tech stack" has almost nothing to do with the utility or popularity of a tool or product. It could have COBOL at the core, if people find it useful the
by gregjor 4y ago
Because "tech stack" has almost nothing to do with the utility or popularity of a tool or product. It could have COBOL at the core, if people find it useful they won't care.
- rcarr 4y agoI get that for regular people but I thought that Mastodon was mainly populated with tech enthusiasts until Elon took over Twitter and people migrated. I'm surprised as I thought that, being tech enthusiasts, the initial users would have gravitated to a high performance server option.
- gregjor 4y agoDevelopers tend to prefer what they know already and have had success with. Time to get something working and released often more important than endless cycling over the perfect stack. In 2016 Ruby/Rails still had a lot of momentum. An open source project will get more contributors if written in a more common language.
- rcarr 4y agoYeah this makes sense. I see it now.