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It might be because of the Scala community, as he feels it is with Clojure.
by vetler 14y ago
It might be because of the Scala community, as he feels it is with Clojure.
- thebluesky 14y agoTumblr and Twitter don't strike me as a particularly conservative audience. Quite the opposite.
- brown9-2 14y agoI don't think Yegge is arguing anywhere that the language choice you make is tied into your overall corporate software "liberalness" or "conservativeness". The "software liberal" companies he lists - Facebook and Amazon - both make heavy use of C++ (a "moderate-conservative" language to Yegge) and Amazon also uses Java heavily (another "moderate conservative" language.
- jsolson 14y agoAmazon's a bit lighter on the C++ these days and has quite a bit of Ruby. As usual with Amazon, though, this is an area where it makes more sense to talk in terms of individual teams than the company as a whole. Some teams build almost everything in Ruby and are open to new languages. Others are pure Java shops. Other than Infosec approval, it's really up to teams to decide for themselves.
- dpritchett 14y agoTumblr and Twitter use Scala to solve their nice-to-have scalability problems using a services-based architecture. This is "core functionality must protected at all costs" conservatism. They still have PHP and Rails (respectively) up front. This is "we like to roll out new user-facing features regularly" liberalism.