Yup, Paul Buchheit was somehow forced to use Java to write GMail with q gun in his head or something. And somehow Twitter engineers was forced to use Java becau

Yup, Paul Buchheit was somehow forced to use Java to write GMail with q gun in his head or something. And somehow Twitter engineers was forced to use Java because management said so... I don't even want to know how you came into these conclusions. They don't make any sense at all. Java was 3 years old when Google started off. Did you get the link where one of the founders was asking question about Java back in 98 regarding web development? Did you know that Java has been used for many many years inside Google when these so called hackers were still working there? Did you know that Twitter actually gets more stable when they migrated to Scala and Java? Did you check the presentation by Twitter engineer as to why they moved away? Those are technical presentations, not management business type of presentation. Are you suggesting that rails hackers were the culprit of all Twitter scalability iscsues? I am unsure if we live in the same world mate.