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Well, I wouldn't want to get in the way of anyone telling themselves that they're smart, but take a look at any startup with scaling problems and what do you se
by jbooth 17y ago
Well, I wouldn't want to get in the way of anyone telling themselves that they're smart, but take a look at any startup with scaling problems and what do you see?
The web team's doing shopping carts and drill-down tables in Ruby.
The platform team's doing ultra-low-latency, distributed, redundant key-value stores in Java, and build scripts in Ruby or whatever, possibly an ETL or two using hadoop to boot.
Who're the smart people, again?
- jbooth 17y agoNot to be a crank - rails is better for web development than any of the 500 java web frameworks, and if you try to write a one-off script in Java, you're insane. I learned to program with Scheme just like a lot of people and it's a beautiful and elegant language. But Java has a lot of strengths, and the fact that it's the most popular language for enterprise development doesn't mean it's for "the masses" while the rest of us are "beautiful unique snowflakes". It's a tool to be used for its strengths like anything else.