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Jeff is really comparing the wrong things here. Whether Ruby, Python, or even ASP.net, it's all asking for Discourse to be a niche product only used sparingly b
by mmahemoff 14y ago
Jeff is really comparing the wrong things here. Whether Ruby, Python, or even ASP.net, it's all asking for Discourse to be a niche product only used sparingly by enthusiasts and in the enterprise.
Which was maybe the goal, but I don't think so.
The obvious choice IMO was to suck it up and live with PHP. Nowhere near as nice as the other options, but exponentially less friction for people to set up on a LAMP stack. I'm not going to all-out defend PHP, but it's not as bad as it used to be; and you don't have to use it as much as you used to, given that Discourse is heavily a client-side JavaScript app anyway.
- dpritchett 14y agoJeff claims that they want to make the Ruby install story as easy as PHP's (e.g. download and unzip into a directory accessible via mod_php). I'd love to see that happen but it strikes me as a bit of a risk to their business. I guess Jeff is independently wealthy already, though his team may not be.
- jmcqk6 14y agoThe thing is that ruby is actually easier to install than php - on your own computer. Having a rails hosting environment as ubiquitous as php is a completely different story. I don't see how any single person would be able to do that.