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I greatly admire what WordPress did for the web; to say that we want to be the WordPress of forums is not a stretch at all. Going with Ruby (Rails?) is a sane

by karterk 14y ago

I greatly admire what WordPress did for the web; to say that we want to be the WordPress of forums is not a stretch at all. Going with Ruby (Rails?) is a sane choice from a development point of view, but a lot of shared hosts still only support PHP and a lot of my web design friends are comfortable only with basic FTP-ing. I remember reading some tweets from Jeff from last year, which hinted that he might be stuck with PHP for his next project (which I believe now is Discourse). Nevertheless, it's interesting that they did not go with PHP. Edit: minor grammar

Raphael 14y ago
It's symbiotic, though. WordPress helps keep PHP relevant. People can choose better hosting if they really want to run killer apps in other languages.
uses 14y ago
If Discourse takes off and becomes something people want, more and better Ruby hosting options will appear. With a few killer apps, maybe Ruby will become the next available-everywhere language.