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I'm really surprised to not see a .NET backend especially since StackOverflow, etc. was built on .NET MVC. I would love to hear the design decision behind that.
by mandlar 14y ago
I'm really surprised to not see a .NET backend especially since StackOverflow, etc. was built on .NET MVC. I would love to hear the design decision behind that.
- michielvoo 14y agoAccording to Jeff Atwood: "Well, I love .NET -- it is amazingly fast and incredibly well designed" "But for open source projects, there's just too much friction in a Microsoft stack. So it was either Python or Ruby and @eviltrout had an extensive Ruby background, so... here we are." Source: http://try.discourse.org/t/-net-vs-ruby/415/11 http://try.discourse.org/t/-net-vs-ruby/415/11 (That forum is reset every day, so this link will expire soon)