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"I won't consider Ruby because I tried Rails once five years ago and it had scaling problems."

Looks like he didn't seriously consider Python or Ruby at all.

> "I won't consider Ruby because I tried Rails once five years ago and it had scaling problems." Looks like he didn't seriously consider Python or Ruby at all.

Agreed. I'm not one to push my language preferences on others, but "it had scaling problems" more likely means "I read about Twitter's unique scaling problems".

I don't think Go is a bad choice for web apps, though; perhaps, if anything, the ecosystem is a bit immature and therefore can make deployment a bit more of a chore.

I get the point about the ecosystem being small, but not how it relates to deployment. Because Go executables are statically linked, deploying Go apps is very easy.

I'm the author of the original article. I do like Python and I didn't say I had an adversion to rails or ruby. I was just giving a statement as to my previous experiences. I did state "Most were brief enough that they shouldn't be taken too seriously."

Your comments regarding Python and Ruby initially drew my ire, but I realized that they're not really "reasons". I'd have omitted them entirely, because they're not really reasons at all. You don't have to have exclusionary reasons for not choosing another language. The ones you've listed are so flimsy as not to detract from the positive reasons you listed. The simple desire to try something new is plenty good enough to try a new language.

Rails can't scale ...blah, blah, blah. That's repeating 2008 rehash bullshit. Build something that enough people are using then he can't bitch about a problem he'll probably never have. Besides, with proper SOA, scaling problems are on par with other languages. It tires me to no end when people (as in the original poster) makes claims they know nothing about.

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