After the much publicized leaving of Blaine Cook and Twitter’s continued stability and scalability problems, now there is talk of Twitter dropping Rails and moving to either Java or (GASP!!) PHP.
Either one wouldn’t bother me. PHP is known to power some really big sites, like Digg for example, and Java does as well. The funny thing is if they choose PHP it would REALLY piss off the Ruby crowd. In professional circles PHP is seen as bottom of the barrel almost down there with VB.
What would be really cool to see was if they chose Grails as an alternative. Talk about a feather in the cap for the Grails crowd…
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