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Talking Discourse: An Interview with Jeff Atwood

13 points by ridruejo 13y ago

ScottWhigham 13y ago
Is this a typo: So it's a pretty good blend of technologies. You know we're trying to get out of the – what I call the MySQL and PHP ghetto, you know, where that's just sort of the de facto standard. Not because it's actually any good but because well it's installed everywhere so that's what I call server herpes. Every server has it. So if every server has it then that's what you gotta use. But we're trying to sort of break that paradigm up a little bit and say, "Hey, Discourse is so good." It's a little bit like VisaCalc. I mean you got – that's kind of a strong comparison but it's so good you want it on your server, even if it requires Ruby and Postgres and Redis and things that are good, you know? Things that are modern. I'm assuming he said VisiCalc?
- ebrescia 13y ago
  Yes, that was VisiCalc. Thanks for catching that!
  - pdwetz 13y ago
    Another typo: the link to the source is to "gethub.com/discourse". Funny thing is when I clicked it I assumed GitHub was having another outtage until I scanned the Url more closely.
jmccree 13y ago
I love how PHP is mentioned in one paragraph in a long interview, yet gets two bullet points and the title here at HN. Hate much?
- ridruejo 13y ago
  It is not that much about hate. It is about how development of modern server apps (Ghost, Discourse) is leaving the 'standard' way of doing things and spawning a new generation of apps that will compete with the established PHP-based solutions (WordPress, Drupal, etc.)
- kendalk 13y ago
  In defense of the PHP devs here, I think calling PHP "server herpes" was sort of asking for it.
ozh 13y ago
So it's ok to rewrite titles now?
joesmo 13y ago
Seriously, at this point, any of the major interpreted backend languages (PHP, Ruby, Python) are capable of pretty much the same thing. The claim that a language is more loved by its users or has a better community is nonsense. Until you can prove that with numbers, it's just useless banter.

13 points by ridruejo 13y ago

Is this a typo: So it's a pretty good blend of technologies. You know we're trying to get out of the – what I call the MySQL and PHP ghetto, you know, where that's just sort of the de facto standard. Not because it's actually any good but because well it's installed everywhere so that's what I call server herpes. Every server has it. So if every server has it then that's what you gotta use. But we're trying to sort of break that paradigm up a little bit and say, "Hey, Discourse is so good." It's a little bit like VisaCalc. I mean you got – that's kind of a strong comparison but it's so good you want it on your server, even if it requires Ruby and Postgres and Redis and things that are good, you know? Things that are modern. I'm assuming he said VisiCalc?

ebrescia 13y ago
Yes, that was VisiCalc. Thanks for catching that!
- pdwetz 13y ago
  Another typo: the link to the source is to "gethub.com/discourse". Funny thing is when I clicked it I assumed GitHub was having another outtage until I scanned the Url more closely.

jmccree 13y ago

I love how PHP is mentioned in one paragraph in a long interview, yet gets two bullet points and the title here at HN. Hate much?

ridruejo 13y ago
It is not that much about hate. It is about how development of modern server apps (Ghost, Discourse) is leaving the 'standard' way of doing things and spawning a new generation of apps that will compete with the established PHP-based solutions (WordPress, Drupal, etc.)
kendalk 13y ago
In defense of the PHP devs here, I think calling PHP "server herpes" was sort of asking for it.

ozh 13y ago

So it's ok to rewrite titles now?

joesmo 13y ago

Seriously, at this point, any of the major interpreted backend languages (PHP, Ruby, Python) are capable of pretty much the same thing. The claim that a language is more loved by its users or has a better community is nonsense. Until you can prove that with numbers, it's just useless banter.