From the desk of Alex Payne:
All of us working on Twitter are big Ruby fans, but I think it’s worth being frank that this isn’t one of those relativistic language issues. Ruby is slow.
Yep. Dynamic Language performance sure does count… Read the whole thing.
/me smiles
From article:
yes, an enlightening article. Slower than Python, sheesh!
of course, rapid development of a system can be a key point in making/breaking it. Would they have gotten Twitter off the ground if they had chosen a different framework?
Does this mean the RonR model is good mainly for prototyping and startup? Then once you’ve proven its
viable, and/or need to scale you switch gears? What’s the
next step: Pyhon/TurboGears, PHP/Cake, Java/?, or .Net stacks?